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Post by deyiengs on Sept 3, 2012 11:53:04 GMT 3
So as Marende and his fellow MPs still think that their Kshs 1.2 million per month salary is peanuts, teachers have effectively downed their tools starting today. A huge majority of them bring home less that Kshs 1 million in a year. Therefore, it should not be rocket science to determine who's pay is actually peanuts. Listening to the radio, reports of school-going kids idling in school compounds are being reported. Most parents didn't send their children to school anyway. Let's sit back and watch all these unfold. Everyone is playing hard ball. Something gotta give though... the question is just a matter of when this is going to happen. I have a feeling it's 'bout to get nasty folks. Teachers stay away from classes as schools reopen
Schools reopened for the third term on Monday as teachers made good their threat to stay out of work until a salary increment deal negotiated 15 years ago is implemented.
Primary and secondary schools opened countrywide, but students idled in the lawns basking the morning sun as their teachers dug in with their demand for a pay rise. Learning in private schools, however, kicked off smoothly.
The teachers strike defies an order by Industrial Court Judge Pyrum Ongaya issued on Friday following an application by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) claiming the strike was unconstitutional.
Knut has asked for a 300 per cent salary increment and immediate implementation of the 1997 Legal Notice 534 in regard to the allowances payable to teachers.
A spot check in Bungoma, Uasin Gishu and Nandi Counties indicated pupils loitering in school compounds as teachers vowed to proceed with the strike until their demands are met.
In Nandi County, about 8, 000 teachers said they would not attend classes in support of the strike.
A teachers' meeting called by the county KNUT officials is scheduled for Monday morning.
In Trans - Nzoia, secondary school students loitered in Kitale town after they reported to their various schools and found no teachers.
Area KNUT Secretary maintained no learning will take place.
Most public schools in Nakuru, Laikipia Narok and Nyandarua counties also remained closed in the morning as learners kept away since teachers did not report.
However, in some of the primary schools - especially in the outlying areas - pupils reported in the morning as usual but had to return back on realizing that their teachers were on strike.
Teachers from the area are expected to start gathering from 10 am to start street protests.
MORE TO FOLLOW.
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Post by destiny on Sept 3, 2012 12:52:51 GMT 3
Doctors, nurses and police must be watching this keenly...
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Post by deyiengs on Sept 3, 2012 13:18:44 GMT 3
And now probably due to pressure, big-man Okuta falls sick. KNUT SECRETARY GENERAL HOSPITALISEDBy Mangoa Mosota and Maureen Odiwuor The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General David Okuta has been admitted at Aga Khan Hospital, Kisumu. Mr Okuta was admitted on Sunday morning suffering from undisclosed ailment, at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Doctors who spoke to The Standard said the Knut secretary general was at the facility’s ICU. By Sunday night, at 8pm, Okuta was still at the ICU. Several relatives and Knut officials visited him. However, the doctors said they would not reveal more about the patient. A relative, who sought anonymity, also confirmed that Okuta was admitted at the hospital ICU. “He is not able to speak at the moment. But doctors have assured us that his condition is stable,” said the source. A senior Knut official also told The Standard Okuta was admitted at the facility. “All I can say is that he has been admitted, but cannot divulge more,” said the official. Okuta has been vocal on the rights of Knut members, who are currently over 240, 000. He took the realm as Secretary General in mid 2011. This comes in as teachers are set to start their strike on Monday. This is despite the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) obtained a court order stopping them. Industrial Court Judge Pyrum Ongaya on Friday granted TSC an order making the strike by public teachers illegal. But Knut and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers officials insist that the strike will go on as scheduled.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 3, 2012 20:46:44 GMT 3
Oops! just when I was planning to return to the profession at my local! OKUTA INCAPACITATED! ;D Let me tell you folks a funny story about people fainting under pressure. One day, in an earlier Kenya, Arap Moi issued one of his roadside edicts, that football club names like Gor Mahia, Abaluhya, Luo Union, Kissii United, were tribalist and divisionist and banned forthwith. The Gor Mahia fan base met at Kaloleni Social Hall, and the multitude flowed all the way to city stadium, blocking Jogoo road in the process. I carried a seat known as a then or kom-nyaluo [three-legged traditional luo stool] for my uncle, a railways man who believed Gor was as much serikal as KANU. The Chairman, Dx was his name I think, was forced to accept a resolution which he would read to the press. When he saw the contents, he fainted without a word. It read: IWINJO MOI, WAN OK WABI CHAKO GOR MERU! KIDWARO CHAKO MERU TIM, TO ILOS MARI IWUON GI PESI MIKWALOGO! GOR EN GOR TO WAN WAN LUO! WEK FUWONWA OMERA!or Listen Moi. We wont rename Gor after your mother. If you want a team named after your mother, launch yours with all that money you have stolen. Gor is Gor and we are Luo. Do not be stupid to us, omera! Dx's nerves gave up! If he released this as a press circular, he would be dead or in detention! My uncle looked at me fiercely as he removed his shirt to fan Mr.Dx. He loved Gor so much, he would rather die than face the prospect of changing the name to FC Moi. That is what we will tell his people to save his dignity! he admonished me.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 9, 2012 21:30:30 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 21, 2012 17:18:07 GMT 3
It has been the heaviest story in the republic. The escalating labour unrest. But, on the streets, on talk-shows, on the papers, the outrage is directed at the two principles whose title i will quote a radio correspondent.
The two thieves in chief, Raila and Kibaki, said the teachers will take the last offer or leave it, and they will, if they leave it, they will all be sacked, and one of the greatest recruitment drives ever launched into. 1.All retired teachers will be recalled 2. All last years in TTCs will be fully employed immediately. etc etc.
All across the country today, teachers have been meeting and the response has come. WE REJECT IT! COME BABY COME!
Atwoli has gone national and warned the cabinet in codes to think who exactly could be facing the sack here!
The standard has a scorching analysis of the sleeping Kibaki, the hibernating Raila {avoided a sensitive issue as he was campaigning], arrogant ministers --Njeri Githae [refused to attend meetings with lowly teachers; Nyong' o [sacked registrars, ordered them to vacate KNHS up to hostels, then raised NHIS rates; Kilonzo [talked as if teachers are his shamba boys!]
Students in TTCs, led by Kagundo, have issued solidarity communiques --they will not replace the teachers fired by the criminal government! and police have been holding vigil outside a multitude of towns, including Kibaki' s Nyeri.
Most schools have sent students home as tension rises. Maranda high, last years top school which still had some education going on, is now closed after two dormitories were burnt.
practical exams should already be on route to preparations --chemistry, biology, physics --purchasing of chemicals, sourcing of eg rats for dissection. All these processes are at a stand still.
The examination could be postponed, but there are negotiations in the background, said to involved the college of headmasters and principals to seek the way forward ---WITHOUT THE CABINET OR THE TWO GOONS RAILA AND KIBAKI!
It is assumed tonight the president, to make good his threat, will announce the sacking of all secondary and primary school teachers in Kenya who are unionized!
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Post by mzee on Sept 21, 2012 17:36:54 GMT 3
Threatening teachers with the sack is a joke.
Once upon a time Kamuzu Banda sacked the whole police force because they were demanding pay rise. It did not take long before they were all recalled due to rise in crime.
Mutula kalonzo must treat this issue with the seriousness it deserves.
The principals must make sure teachers are better paid or else there will be trouble.
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 21, 2012 18:06:25 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 21, 2012 18:16:06 GMT 3
from the standard in one of the above links:
Lazy decision
They started their protests at the main campus and on reaching the University Way/Uhuru Highway roundabout they turned rowdy.
Police had to use teargas canisters to disperse the students who also stoned some road users and placed boulders on the road.
Uhuru Highway was turned into a battle zone for a while before police overpowered the students and drove them to their campus hostels later in the afternoon.
The students said they wanted to push the Government to listen to the lecturers’ demands and that they had been idle for long. “Why does the Government pay Permanent Secretaries a lot of money and leave out lecturers and teachers who are doing much in this country,” shouted some of the protestors.
Thursday, Prof Kamar said the Government had offered to pay the money in two phases of Sh3.9 billion starting next January and the balance paid by July the same year. ===========================================
University teaching and non teaching staff are going back to work. Attemps to have Muga Kolale, --the ayatollah [fondly called so because of his beard] head of UASU comment on the other on-going teacher strike have so far not materialised.
That world solidarity, even if only verbal! could be explosive at this senstive time perhaps! ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 22, 2012 16:21:25 GMT 3
It was served too hot. The cabinet threat to sack all unionised teachers. By yesterday evening, 21-9, Njeru Githae appeared next to the TSC chairman denying there had been such an intention. Amazingly the same TSC --on record two weeks ago as threatening to detain salaries until it was reminded by, among others, the indomitable Sossion, to better the section of the constitution that warranted her such powers, was all dialogue and peace and respect!
Njeru Githae claim es he has no money, but in the same period other largess, astronomous, are being dished out to certain levels.
Mutula Kilonzo promised ' to fanya zake' monday noon if teachers are still on strike. --Response of a tough teacher: hiyo ni kaka mzazi kuambia mtoto wake, asipoacha kulia, ataita fisi! fairy tales.
Which means either Mutula, if the strike continues, will fire teachers in the unions or, like in the movie american beauty, kufanya zake may just mean going under the shower for a long session of masturbation like Kevin Spacey in the said movie.
Meanwhile Kibaki is leaving for New York UN-GA. ------------------------------ Only Martha Karua mentioned the strikes in her campaign engagements. Raila invited kalonzo back to ODM, Kalonzo told him he was the one who was defeated and went on to buy a party from Imanyara! Ruto was irrelevant. UK was topping Narok with his peace caravan.
never seen a greater array of irrelevance wanting top office. We never catch Korea, any Korea, with this lot!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 24, 2012 9:48:03 GMT 3
In a few minutes the national executive council of the unions KNUT and KUPPET, fronted by the formidable duo Wilson Sossion and Akello Misori, meet in Nairobi to discuss the agreement reached yesterday with Financeman Githate and his entourage. The meeting agreed to the teachers demands. I will come back to this later, after the meeting has issued a final communique. But the schools are expected back on track next week. when the cabinet, after a sub-cabinet committee had met under chairmanship of the useless duo Raila and Kibaki, and issued an ultimatum, a take it or leave it, and promised to sack all union teachers, perhaps they deluded even themselves for a moment. Now Kibaki is in New York and Raila is on the trail. And Githae who was too arrogant to meet teachers, was pumping elbows with Sossion as if they are members of the same gang in LA! I love comedy, but when you do it with the future of a whole country, I will love more, the comedy of comforting your wife after your execution fro treason!
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Post by b6k on Sept 24, 2012 11:57:04 GMT 3
In a few minutes the national executive council of the unions KNUT and KUPPET, fronted by the formidable duo Wilson Sossion and Akello Misori, meet in Nairobi to discuss the agreement reached yesterday with Financeman Githate and his entourage. The meeting agreed to the teachers demands. I will come back to this later, after the meeting has issued a final communique. But the schools are expected back on track next week. when the cabinet, after a sub-cabinet committee had met under chairmanship of the useless duo Raila and Kibaki, and issued an ultimatum, a take it or leave it, and promised to sack all union teachers, perhaps they deluded even themselves for a moment. Now Kibaki is in New York and Raila is on the trail. And Githae who was too arrogant to meet teachers, was pumping elbows with Sossion as if they are members of the same gang in LA! I love comedy, but when you do it with the future of a whole country, I will love more, the comedy of comforting your wife after your execution fro treason! Secretary General has just called off the strike. Good to see him back on his feet. I'm happy for the teachers & happier still for the kids who have had 3 weeks off school while the government dithered on past promises. All teachers will resume duties from tomorrow morning....
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Post by kamalet on Sept 24, 2012 13:32:40 GMT 3
When I got the tweet yesterday that the govt and the union had agreed on a single payment rather than the phased payments they had offered, I was livid and could not imagine how confused this our government is.
You held out for three weeks only to capitulate against the teachers. If you had the intention of conceding to the demands of the teachers, why wait three weeks and torture young children? I held the belief that the government was not going to accede to the request after pleading no money and no money for all this time it was a LIE that has cost kenyans a lot!
The problem with this flip flop by the government is that it will embolden other people to stick it out (doctors??) as they believe the government will always capitulate. That in my view was very tactless on the part of the government!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 24, 2012 15:47:54 GMT 3
In a few minutes the national executive council of the unions KNUT and KUPPET, fronted by the formidable duo Wilson Sossion and Akello Misori, meet in Nairobi to discuss the agreement reached yesterday with Financeman Githate and his entourage. The meeting agreed to the teachers demands. I will come back to this later, after the meeting has issued a final communique. But the schools are expected back on track next week. when the cabinet, after a sub-cabinet committee had met under chairmanship of the useless duo Raila and Kibaki, and issued an ultimatum, a take it or leave it, and promised to sack all union teachers, perhaps they deluded even themselves for a moment. Now Kibaki is in New York and Raila is on the trail. And Githae who was too arrogant to meet teachers, was pumping elbows with Sossion as if they are members of the same gang in LA! I love comedy, but when you do it with the future of a whole country, I will love more, the comedy of comforting your wife after your execution fro treason! Secretary General has just called off the strike. Good to see him back on his feet. I'm happy for the teachers & happier still for the kids who have had 3 weeks off school while the government dithered on past promises. All teachers will resume duties from tomorrow morning.... Correct b6k, the NEC, as expected, ratified the agreement and formally --as per the powers conferred upon him etc etc-- Okuta Siany, embedded between Mr. Sossion and Hon. Mutula, declared the strike ended, live on TV. unfortunately Okuta looked still very ill and weak. On behalf of the public teachers of Kenya, I congratulate and thank members of the public who have privately and publicly expressed solidarity with the teachers, even as their children, brothers and sisters, were heavily disadvantaged in the crucial third term. Through call in programs, newspaper articles, shouts of suppport during demonstrations, solidarity from public at large has been manifest. --The young especially castigating the government for running a elite of parasites, leeches, and corruption! The message got through and emboldened the teachers! Now, back to work to catch on lost time! ---------------- In the absence of Okuta due to sickness, the able Mr Sossion, the national chair KNUT, consulting with the KNUT house lawyer, proved himself more than a match for Kilonzo, his team, Njeru Githae, his team, and all the tough bullies from the PM' s and all the president' s men. At one point Mutula Kilozo, an eminent lawyer in his own right, was asked to quote the section of the constitution that gave him powers to intimidate, to the extent of firing, all teachers! Proved a very tall order! This new constitution is baaaaaad! I will be sonsulting a friend of mine who knows law, to find out if the govt can not be called to task to apologise for the intimidation! otherwise Mutunga or one of his wise judges may just have to rule officially on whether the sub-cabinet errered in its collective threat or not! [they should have declared martial law first!] ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 24, 2012 16:05:38 GMT 3
When I got the tweet yesterday that the govt and the union had agreed on a single payment rather than the phased payments they had offered, I was livid and could not imagine how confused this our government is. You held out for three weeks only to capitulate against the teachers. If you had the intention of conceding to the demands of the teachers, why wait three weeks and torture young children? I held the belief that the government was not going to accede to the request after pleading no money and no money for all this time it was a LIE that has cost kenyans a lot! The problem with this flip flop by the government is that it will embolden other people to stick it out (doctors??) as they believe the government will always capitulate. That in my view was very tactless on the part of the government! The govt proved itself an ass for sure. But there is something which needs a detailed analysis. The recent spate of salary increases --see prisons, docs, PSs etc, will work out to be inflationary. The productive base does not support this consumptive expenditures, so in the long run, prices will rise to foot up the salaries bill. Officially, the treasury gave some points worth noting in detail, that was when they rejected the teachers demands in beginning. Included were: --Budjetary shortfall already existss, from last years financial planning --Would have to borrow money but from where? 1. Usual donor' s patience was already exhausted --Treasury had to refund the British govt after Ongeri' s docket misappropriated [sic] failed to account comprehensively for; and it would not be prudent anyway to borrow from donors to fund teachers salaries! 2. Recurrent expenditure, govt salaries etc, is already exceeded this financial year' s allocation, and the shortfall can only debt-funded. So treasury was not keen to expand the debt funding of salaries. 3. Investment bill requires at least 30% govt revenue be expended thereon. The govt is already contravening this -- 23% is the figure now, which means, if there is no money to meet the law on investment cap, where wuld the cash for salaries come from! Sound reasons, except Njeri Githae and his team, --incestuous, inbred, of arrogance based more on ignorance, had failed to notice that ALL THESE REASONS WERE VALID EVEN AS THEY OVER-RAISED THE PERKS OF THE PSs' ! AND THE REST OF THE GCG BIG WIGS AND MPIGS! Githae did not expect to be checkmated on his own inconsistencies! He coulc not show cause why it would be the teachers who have to SELECTIVELY be victimised! TAFUTA PESA, LIPA WALIMU, WEWE GITHAE, Sossion told him in the beginning through the media when he, Githae, felt too proud to meet them! If he had followed these orders sooner rather than later, the country could have been saved the brink, and the coming payback! because the three weeks of work lost, is a huge deficit --the payback will be painful! Kamalet, I call them goons in cabinet! goons!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 29, 2013 9:12:33 GMT 3
2013Next, he will sack them like his fellow Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o did with the Nurses, all 200,000 of them. May be professors are too clueless in administration of conflict, they should go back to universities where there is a ready audience to be awed by these lofty titles. But we have been here before, many a time! ONCE UPON A TIME IN WE SANG, KENYA NCHI NZURI, HAKUNA MATATA. And that song we must still sing, given the more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether the minister's name is Kosgey, or Ongeri, or Kilonzo, or some other younger version of professor now called Kaimenyi, balancing a budget calls for RENEGE. You sign agreements you have no intention of fulfilling, then use state-power to throw your weight around. Intimidate, divide and rule, coerce and terrorise by sacking and impoverisation. Yes how to break a strike. And set the scene for a more radical hardening of hearts in the next round. For political man is a struggler for his rights, and aluta continua, with all the pain. 2002So, the new kids on the block, Kazungu Kambi, Jocob Kaimenyi, or Henry Rotich, or the new ministers and officials in the pocket of Uhurutos power, any new thinking you might have, different from your ancestors above? Aaah, how I wish I had no memory sometimes! Then could I be surprised! www.nation.co.ke/News/No-pay-for-striking-teachers/-/1056/1897640/-/w9t3p4z/-/index.htmlYes, Otishotish, indeed us stupid teachers! a lesson harsh learnt, trusting a government gazetted agreement, certified legal by an Industrial court! Hmmm, law and order talk by the same government! With Uhuru issuing decrees left and right you wonder about the law, for all the new constitution! The police bosses, paying a visit to Uhuru at state house, not only got their backlog raises of up to 42%, they also had them backdated several years on the spot ---by presidential decree Henry Rotich just heard it over the Radio, and had to work magic! But of course these are the armed wing! they man roads at night in rain in the dark. You do not want to mess with them do you ---even if you are the commander in chief. NB: Kaimenyi and Kambi had not even been vetted when the police got their ungazetted raises!
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Post by kamalet on Jun 29, 2013 10:44:32 GMT 3
The employer of all teachers is the Teachers Service Commission. Under the constitution, it is an independent commission tasked to deal with matters teachers. In my view the Education secretary Professor Kaimenyi has no business talking about the teachers strike. Kazungu as the labour secretary does have role to play in the dispute so we should allow him to talk of stuff he barely understands!
The TSC should stop waiting on the government to offer a political solution to the teachers strike and should come out and resolve this matter. If in its opinion the teachers union is wrong in calling the strike, the commission should go to court to declare the strike illegal and on that basis can issue threats of sacking and non-payment. If the Industrial court declares the strike illegal, it should force the union to call it off and force teachers back to class. If the union ignores the order, then haul the union officials to jail for contempt of court.
I hear a matter was adjourned yesterday after KNUT failed to turn up in court and that should be gratifying that one of the parties is trying the legal route. My expectation is that whatever the court rules, then its orders must be obeyed.
So to my friends Uhuru and Ruto. Shut up and await the court to rule if you will pay the 47 billion or not. If you are ordered to pay, then it will be up to you to shuffle your government expenditure to raise the money,
I see no reason why politics should be playing any role on this labour matter!
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jun 29, 2013 16:21:48 GMT 3
The employer of all teachers is the Teachers Service Commission. Under the constitution, it is an independent commission tasked to deal with matters teachers. In my view the Education secretary Professor Kaimenyi has no business talking about the teachers strike. Kazungu as the labour secretary does have role to play in the dispute so we should allow him to talk of stuff he barely understands! The TSC should stop waiting on the government to offer a political solution to the teachers strike and should come out and resolve this matter. If in its opinion the teachers union is wrong in calling the strike, the commission should go to court to declare the strike illegal and on that basis can issue threats of sacking and non-payment. If the Industrial court declares the strike illegal, it should force the union to call it off and force teachers back to class. If the union ignores the order, then haul the union officials to jail for contempt of court. I hear a matter was adjourned yesterday after KNUT failed to turn up in court and that should be gratifying that one of the parties is trying the legal route. My expectation is that whatever the court rules, then its orders must be obeyed. So to my friends Uhuru and Ruto. Shut up and await the court to rule if you will pay the 47 billion or not. If you are ordered to pay, then it will be up to you to shuffle your government expenditure to raise the money, I see no reason why politics should be playing any role on this labour matter! Kamale, It looks like this one is case closed, at least as per government. It looks to me as though the KNUT officials were forced into this action especially after the SRC advised that all pending cbas must be dispensed with by end of June. Matters were not helped by the competition between KNUT and KUPPET, with the former fearing that the latter was pulling the rug under their feet. KNUT is only fooling teachers, come next week, they will talk to the government and resolve all these issues as 'the only option available to them'. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 3, 2013 19:23:23 GMT 3
The employer of all teachers is the Teachers Service Commission. Under the constitution, it is an independent commission tasked to deal with matters teachers. In my view the Education secretary Professor Kaimenyi has no business talking about the teachers strike. Kazungu as the labour secretary does have role to play in the dispute so we should allow him to talk of stuff he barely understands!
The TSC should stop waiting on the government to offer a political solution to the teachers strike and should come out and resolve this matter. If in its opinion the teachers union is wrong in calling the strike, the commission should go to court to declare the strike illegal and on that basis can issue threats of sacking and non-payment. If the Industrial court declares the strike illegal, it should force the union to call it off and force teachers back to class. If the union ignores the order, then haul the union officials to jail for contempt of court. I hear a matter was adjourned yesterday after KNUT failed to turn up in court and that should be gratifying that one of the parties is trying the legal route. My expectation is that whatever the court rules, then its orders must be obeyed. So to my friends Uhuru and Ruto. Shut up and await the court to rule if you will pay the 47 billion or not. If you are ordered to pay, then it will be up to you to shuffle your government expenditure to raise the money, I see no reason why politics should be playing any role on this labour matter! MAVULTURES HAS AN INTERESTING TAKE ON MR. KAMBI MAVULTURES WATCH mavulture.com/kazungu-kambi-go-getter-reported-swindled-fame-power/ --kazungu kambi, labour sec. wELL? If teachers salaries are not paid by Friday, may be teachers should hire lawyer Mutua to block Kazungu's salary too: until his integrity issues are resoved!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 6, 2013 9:54:20 GMT 3
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087666&story_title=big-split-as-kenya-national-union-of-teachers-rejects-pay-deal&pageNo=1It is material that has to be studied. The split in teachers labour unions, Knut and Kuppet, but there is UASU too. Remember in the medical arena, doctors too refused to be unionised with nurses, they ooze contempt at these lower skilled scum of the profession --if you understand the politics of hospital hierarchies; and I believe medical specialists too wanted their own league Union --to set them apart from general practioners. Yeah, seniority must be guaranteed! SNOBISM. So too in the sector of education. University lecturers look down on college tutors, who in turn feel superior over secondary school teachers [post-primary]. And the secondary school teachers are full of contempt for their primary counterparts. And everybody their Union. A closer look will reveal a major class and ideological hiatus between the unions, reflecting the material conditions under which the dispense their labour. Farm slave or house slave? it matters in the head. At a first reading, this splintering should make it easy for a government to divide and rule labour. At a second reading, this is anarchy and chaos. For instance 47,000 teachers are back to work. But 240,000 not. So are schools functioning or not? Or is it secondary schools are functioning and primary schools not? www.businessdailyafrica.com/Teachers-risk-Sh2-4-billion-fine-as-Uhuru-urges-dialogue/-/539546/1905310/-/item/0/-/4tgmhcz/-/index.htmlEmployers can not just [arbitrarily] attach salaries of their workers --unless my legal knowledge is outdate! There needs to be a second legal case presented by the government to a court seeking to effect this measure [salary stop], and have a court ruling allowing the monetary interdiction, otherwise the arbitrary holding of remunerations is just theft.
---In the new constitution you can not even withhold the salary of your housemaid ---not even her Phone {how did the Miguna case with his maid's Phone end?}.
But as a tactic of intimidation by impoverisation and Union busring under a REGIME OF IMPUNITY AND LAWLESSNESS, of course the almighty government can do as it pleases. It is name is then a dictatorship, the usual form of government in human history.
But Kenya is a bit of both now. Our legislators are better paid than US-congressmen, the president immidiately after his inauguration used TWO JETS to fly to one destination, and his VP gallivants around in Saudi-Royalty Jumbo class jets. When men like that start 'attaching' or confiscating, or detaining the salaries of primary teachers, some who start at 25K, I think they are asking for what in english politicology is known as the 'hot iron pocker up your rectum' treatment.
www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/-/539550/1903874/-/1148bel/-/index.htmlOh COTU, that thing headed by the .... Atwoli. It is in the intensive care unit? or how come no one hears of it, facilitating a deal in the stalemate? This strike of KNUT was legally declared, and declaring it illegal requires more legal gymnastics that Githu's head is currently capable of. --The darling Ndolo ruling or not!
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