A couple of meetings have been held in the hope of resolving the impasse, but none seem to have reached a point of getting the lecturers to go back to class.
Constance Wasonga, the fire-spitting union don, has been at the vanguard of union negotiations for years and he is well aware that it matters not the length of a strike because in the end, it must be sorted out in a boardroom away from the noisy streets.
The union must move with speed and agree on the phased payment proposed by Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba because the lecturers must strike a balance between the health of their bank balances and the soundness of our public university system.
The lecturers will be elated that they have brought learning to a stop. But that is a blinkered view.
The damage the strikes have wreaked on our universities far outweighs the sums at the centre of the row.
Reason must prevail because tens of thousands of students are languishing in the streets when they ought to be in class.
Quote of the day: “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” —American author and historian Will Durant was born on November 5, 1885
