Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion has embarked on a campaign to reduce the CBA cycle from four to
two years.
He specifically raised concerned over
implementation schedule for the Collective Bargaining Agreement covering 2017-2022.
Sossion said the two-year period conforms with the International Labor Organisation (ILO) standards adding that TSC and SRC are wrong by making it four.
Speaking at the ongoing 60th Knut annual delegates conference in Mombasa, he said a CBA that goes beyond two years works to the detriment of members.
"Therefore,
it is wrong for the government and employer to use the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to create a four-year collective bargaining
cycle."
About 312,060 teachers via their unions signed a CBA agreement in October last year.
The salary increase was for
teachers who are members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers and Kenya Union of
Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).
The pay deals were initially to be implemented in four phases but this was
later reviewed following negotiations between TSC and the National
Treasury.
TSC said July salaries was upgraded in line with the
CBA. The next phase of implementation of the Sh54 billion CBA for
156,000 teachers in lower grades will begin on July 1 next year.
The
final phase of implementation for the remaining teachers in higher
grades will be paid out on July 1, 2020.
Sossion said SRC's attempt to "immorally and unilaterally" stop annual increment benefit to teachers was a strategic provocation.
He said the matter was later
resolved because, the annual increment, like promotion, cannot be
withdrawn under the universal ILO.
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