KNUT asks JSS intern teachers to stay far from Demos.
Junior Secondary Schools Do Not Teach. There might not be lessons tomorrow because Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers are organizing a reopening day demonstration to put pressure on their employer to investigate their circumstances further.
According to letters Education News received from several Officer Commanding Stations (OCSs) across the country, the so-called “moguls” will be bringing their petitions to several TSC county offices tomorrow as their protests come to a head.
They would be asking the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) sections across the country to revoke TSC’s appeal and convert all JSS intern teachers to permanent and pensionable (PnP) terms.
“We as KUPPET/JSS teachers of Nandi County hereby give notice to the Kenya Police that we will hold a demo along Namgoi-Kapsabet Town Road up to the TSC offices in Kapsabet Town in response to the Employment and Labour Relations Court judgement by Hon. Justice Ongaya on the legality of internship under Teachers Service Commission,” reads a letter signed by KUPPET Nandi Executive Secretary Paul Rotich and addressed to the OCS Kapsabet.
Letters of correspondence were written by KUPPET Narok and signed by Charles Ng’eno, the branch executive secretary; KUPPET Kisumu was signed by Zablon Awange; KUPPET Kwale was signed by Leonard Oroje; and KUPPET Elgeyo Marakwet was signed by Paul Kibor. Most of the correspondence was dated between April 24, 2024, and April 26, 2024.
“The purpose of the demonstration is to demand that TSC withdraw its appeal on the ruling, call upon TSC to honor the court ruling and confirm all JSS interns, and call upon TSC to compensate all JSS interns, as directed by the court ruling for the period they have served,” Ng’eno of Narok wrote in a letter dated April 26, 2024.
“The purpose of this letter is to notify the police of the said demonstration and if possible to provide security to the JSS ‘Moguls’ as they pressurize the TSC employer,” Kisumu resident Zablon Awange wrote to the OCS Kisumu Central Police Station.
Junior Secondary Schools Are Not Teaching Anything
KNUT asks JSS intern teachers to stay far from Demos.
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