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| Dr Constantine Wasonga, the secretary-general of the Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu). PHOTO | NMG |
Lecturers from Public universities have vowed not to step in class as strike begins from Tuesday next week when universities, together with the rest of education institutions in the country, open their doors for the 2020 academic calendar.
“If the new pay does not hit our bank accounts by January 6, we will call all our more than 9,000 lecturers and 27,000 staff members out for a strike, which will go on until the matter is sorted out to our satisfaction,” said Dr Constantine Wasonga, the secretary-general of the Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu), on Tuesday.
According to Dr. Wasonga, the agreed total cost of the 2017-2021 collective bargaining agreement is Sh13.8 billion and not Sh8.8 billion as declared by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC).
" We are giving the government time to put its act together. SRC came up with a new salary structure amounting to Sh8.8 billion and we don’t know how they arrived at that figure. Our national delegates conference on November 13 allowed us to call a national strike if this pay dispute is not sorted out and we are ready to go ahead,” he said
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