The Universities Academic Staff Union has asked lecturers to keep off classrooms as it prepares to a appeal a directive against this.
This is contrary to a directive by the Labour court for them to go back to work on Monday.
Uasu Secretary General Constantine Wasonga said 40 members of the National Executive Council voted to appeal the ruling.
"This morning the NEC held a special meeting and unanimously agreed
to appeal
the court ruling of March 16. We agreed that Uasu is going to apply for stay orders, therefore the status quo remains
which means the strike continues unabated," he said.
"We respect the law and want to challenge [according to it]. But I want the public to know this is a union that believes in the rule of the law so whatever we are going to do shall be in confines of the law."
In a ruling on Friday, justice Onesmus Makau ordered lecturers to return to work and
the government give a counteroffer their 2013-21 CBA in 30 days.
The Universities Academic Staff Union called the strike on March 1 as lecturers
pushed for
a counter-proposal on that Collective Bargaining Agreement.
On March 14, lecturers rejected the Sh6.8 billion purportedly offered by the Vice Chancellors' Committee for them to go back to work.
At a press briefing in Nairobi on Sunday, Wasonga faulted the court for failing to specify whether its orders were for a conciliation or negotiation process, and for not setting
timelines.
The don said Uasu's legal team will immediately move to the court to seek stay orders as the date for the Inter-Public Universities Council Consultative Forum
to table a counter officer was not specified.
"We are worried that IPUCCF can just come up to delay the negotiation process," he said.
"We have had timeless in previous return-to-work formulas but this one is open and subject to abuse.
Therefore, we want our members to stay put as we follow the due process of the law."
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