Knut and Kuppet opens new fight for JSS membership
The Kenya National Union of teachers and Kenyaunion of postprrmary teachers have opened a new fight for the juniour secondary teachers to join their unions.
In summary;
Rival teachers unions tussle over recruiting junior secondary school teachers to their unions.
Knut and kuppet are looking for the big food in membership fee from teachers .
The teachers service commission is caught up will war as it transits members from one union to another.
The jss is domiciled in primary schools making KNUT to fight for their members who joined primary under the jss .
Kuppet also on its side says that the members in the jss are secondary school teachers who should join the secondary school unions.
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The unions have begun to war on who should take the members of the jss into their union.
The selfish interest is bringing rivalry between the two unions giving tsc hard time to transit members from one union to another.
Furthermore the Kenya National Union of teachers secretary General Collins Oyuu claims that kuppet has been recruiting the jss teachers illegally.
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“The teachers in primary schools , including those in JSS have irregulary been transfered to Kuppet and we will not rest until the normal the anomaly is corrected,” Mr. OYuu says.
Mr. Oyuu cites a report from the Presidential Working Party on Educational Reforms that the JSS teachers are a comprehensive unit under primary section.
Cause of war between knut and kuppet
Since last year the government gave employment to 56,000 teachers who now should be members of the knut.
The TSC pits that the teachers shortage in the country is at 110,000 but the number is rising due to natural attrition .
Secondly the instutions are increasing and expanding making the demand to increase.
Lastly,due to introduction of the juniour secondary the demand has gone up with increasing number of students that requires an increase in number of teachers.
The teachers service commission says that they have nothing to do with the fight between the unions .
Furthermore they cannot force teachers to join any of the unions , the fight is purely administrative between the two unions .
Knut and Kuppet opens new fight for JSS membership.
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