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Kenya: Court Directs TSC to Pay Teachers for September
The Star, 21 November 2015
The High Court yesterday directed the Teachers Service Commission to pay teachers their September salaries. Read more »
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Kenya: How Teachers Were Starved to Surrender
Nation, 21 November 2015
Teachers gave up their fight for better pay when funds to their unions were cut off. Read more »
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Kenya: Deal May Collapse As Employer Seeks to Punish Strikers
Nation, 21 November 2015
Last week's deal that teachers who took part in the recent strike be paid their September salaries could collapse. Read more »
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Kenya: Judge Declines to Grant Orders to Stop September Salaries for Teachers
Nation, 20 November 2015
A request by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to be granted orders stopping the payment of the teachers September salaries has been declined. Read more »
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Kenya: Labour Court Directs TSC to Pay Teachers' September Salaries
The Star, 20 November 2015
The labour court has dismissed an application by Teachers Service Commission seeking to withhold teachers' salaries for September, on account of their five-week strike. Read more »
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Kenya: Teachers Back Uhuru Deal On Their Salaries
Nation, 19 November 2015
Teachers Wednesday abandoned the court battle for a 50-60 per cent pay rise and will now start a new round of salary negotiations. Read more »
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Kenya: KNUT Endorses Uhuru Deal, to Hold Talks With TSC On Wednesday
The Star, 19 November 2015
The Knut executive council has endorsed a State House deal that could see unions drop court cases against the Teachers Service Commission. Read more »
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Kenya: KNUT Endorses Pay Deal With Kenyatta, Talks to Start Wednesday
Nation, 19 November 2015
Top Knut decision making organ on Wednesday endorsed a pay deal reached with President Uhuru Kenyatta and agreed to start negotiations with Teachers Service Commission on… Read more »
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Kenya: KNUT, Kuppet Unaware Cord Wired Teachers' Sh1.5 Million Donation
The Star, 19 November 2015
Knut and Kuppet have said Cord did not notify them of the transfer of the Sh1.5 million it raised for 300,000 teachers through its M-Pesa solidarity account. Read more »
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Kenya: Divided KNUT Bosses Meet Over Uhuru Deal
Capital FM, 19 November 2015
Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is to hold a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday to discuss the meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta which mediated an… Read more »
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Kenya: TSC to Meet Tutors Unions
The Star, 19 November 2015
The Teachers Service Commission has invited teachers' unions for a meeting. Read more »
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Kenya: Cord's Sh1.5 Million for 300,000 Teachers
The Star, 19 November 2015
The teachers' solidarity account raised Sh1.5 million, Cord said yesterday. Read more »
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Kenya: State House Teachers' Salary Deal Rekindles Sossion, Nzili Rivalry
Nation, 15 November 2015
Back in 1997, teachers went on strike for 12 days demanding higher pay. Read more »
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Kenya: Sossion Tells Off Uhuru Over Teachers Pay
The Star, 14 November 2015
KENYA National Union of Teachers secretary general Wilson Sossion yesterday resurfaced three days after missing out on the State House meeting and criticised President Uhuru… Read more »
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Kenya: Anxiety As KNUT Officials Meet to Discuss Pay Offer
Nation, 13 November 2015
A showdown is looming in the country's biggest teachers union ahead of a crucial meeting that will decide whether to approve or reject a deal offered by the government on their… Read more »
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Kenya: Uhuru Wrong to Exclude Sossion From Talks - KNUT
The Star, 13 November 2015
President Uhuru Kenyatta should not have met Knut officials without secretary general Wilson Sossion's presence, union members in Rift Valley have said. Read more »
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Kenya: Atwoli Reports State to ILO Over Teachers' Pay Dispute
The Star, 12 November 2015
Cotu wants the International Labour Organization to intervene in the teachers' dispute following a decision by government to deny them a 50 to 60 per cent pay increase. Read more »
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Kenya: Uhuru Orders TSC to Pay September Salaries
Nation, 11 November 2015
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday intervened in the teachers' pay dispute and asked their employer to pay them their September salaries. Read more »
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Kenya: Frustrated Teachers Head to Supreme Court
Nation, 7 November 2015
Teachers Friday pledged to take their fight for higher pay to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal overturned their 50-60 per cent salary raise. Read more »