Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sossion: KNUT is shutting down, it’s on deathbed

KNUT Membership Withdrawal: The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is on its deathbed. This painful reality has been admitted by the union’s secretary general Wilson Sossion, under whose reign the union has gone from a roaring lion to a mouse scared out of its wits.

A report that appeared in the Daily Nation on Monday painted the gloomy picture of KNUT. “Its membership has shrunk from 187,471 in June last year to 45,217 in September this year and monthly earnings have dipped from 144 million to 32.9 million. is unable to finance operations in its 110 branches, which receive money from the headquarters on pro rata based on membership. Staff have gone without salaries and rising rent arrears may see some branches thrown out of their premises,” the report said.

In his admission, Sossion said that the union is struggling financially and could shut down any minute. “Knut is shutting down. It is financially crippled as it has been deprived of resources and cannot meet most of its financial obligations,” he said.

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While KNUT has engaged in salary and transfer wars with the Teachers Service Commission, the TSC has found favour with KUPPET. For example, teachers under KNUT have been deprived of higher salaries forcing them to opt out of the union to gain higher pay.

In July, teachers who are members of Knut were left out of the latest salary raise by the TSC. The teachers who totaled 32,556 did not receive improved pay or get promoted. This is after the TSC said that they are under the Scheme of Service that is favoured by their union. The teachers who were promoted and awarded higher salaries were either members of KUPPET or did not belong to any union.

This varied treatment in the award of salary increments started last year when TSC left 103,634 Knut teachers out of the higher pay scheme. KNUT Membership Withdrawal.

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