Kenya: University Lecturers Threaten to Strike Over Pay

12 January 2014

Nairobi — University staff have vowed to boycott work from Tuesday should a meeting between them and the government scheduled for Monday fail to resolve their pay dispute. University Academic Staff Union Secretary General Muga K'olale said the implementation of their Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2012 was not honoured.

K'olale explained that the agreement settled for a total of Sh7.8 billion for the increment salaries and house allowance for lecturers, which is yet to be awarded. "It is our position that the CBA agreement has been flawed terribly and in order for justice to be visited on the university staff it must be implemented immediately."

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