KNUT threatens strike action

http://www.ntv.co.ke
Teachers in the country are threatening to walk out of class come January if their fresh demands for a salary review are not met. The Kenya National Union of Teachers announced earlier in the day that they would be issuing a formal strike notice when schools re-open. As Nimrod Taabu reports, the teachers are demanding an unspecified amount of money in pay rise and a review of hardship and commuter allowances.

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[MyTragedies1]

HUYU JAMAA AMEJAA,INAONEKANA ANAISHI POA.

[Otdog]

Have Kenyans finally found their long lost backbone or is this our Achilles heel in disguise?

We may not be able to imitate the Arabs in uprisings but we definitely know how to "Strike Kenya until it hurts (no pun intended)" when our money/salaries/pay is interfered with

[2010Millionairess]

@sirjonduke Sounds like they're strking becasue some of their prievious demands were signed off on to fend them off and no action was taken. It's the same story all around unkept promises. Inflation is high, there's shortage of teachesrs more students, delapitated classrooms, yet the govt wants to get a lot and give the least they can get away with. So let them hit the streets! Mps should get a pay cut and cut down on the cost of seats they set their lazy bums on

[sirjonduke]

Si these guys just went on strike a couple months ago? Aaah, zii, I wont support a second strike within the period of a year. Why didnt you make these demands last time? One strike and you're out!!

[alvionjo]

It is your right to strike. If the judiciary and doctors can have better terms, why not teachers? If parliamentarians cannot pay tax and still award themselves pension, then why not teachers? It is a shame meeting teachers who taught you awhile back broke because all their monies are tied to loans whose interest rates have skyrocketed because of the CBK governor-Ndung'u, a voodoo economist. Demand better! especially now the Cabinet wants to stiffle any pay rise by civil servants.