Ministry of Labour Now at the Mercy of KNUT as it Calls for a Halt on Strike

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Is KNUT right in calling for a strike in a week that schools are expected to resume running?

Well, KNUT might have some genuine concerns but the timing of their Strike notice is ill advised as it is going to interfere with the Schools Academic calender.

With a crisis now looming and kind of inevitable, the Ministry of Labour has now moved in to help restore some order to the Education Ministry.

The Ministry has urged the Kenya National Union of Teachers to call off the January 2 strike and pave way for negotiations.

In a statement, Labour CS Ukur Yatani said the ministry has appointed a conciliation team to bridge the fallout between TSC and Knut after the latter asked its members to boycott work in January.

The team will be led by Charles Maranga.

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Knut on Wednesday issued a 14-day ultimatum to the TSC after the announcement of the transfer of 3,000 head teachers.

TSC has still stood it’s ground that the Transfers must be done with about 5,000 school heads and teachers now scheduled to report to new institutions in January.

The move has escalated the  wars between the TSC and teachers’ unions even further.

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The transfers will affect more than 3,000 institutions. It targets 195 long-serving school principals, deputy principals and thousands of teachers who operate within their locality and those who have served in one institution for more than nine years.

Also to be shifted are secondary school heads managing the county and subcounty schools, who were not affected in the first and second phase of the transfers.

Sources say the TSC has turned a deaf ear to the presidential directive that ordered the Education ministry to review the delocalisation programme.

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