16,000 teachers who missed out on benefits in the third and fourth rounds of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) are slated to get salary increments and promotions.
According to the Standard, the move comes after the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) agreed to drop all cases against the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in a bid to mend bridges between the two.
New KNUT Secretary General Collins Oyuu confirmed that the decision to drop the charges would go a long way in benefitting the teachers.
He added that his aim is to advocate for the teachers' plea hence ensuring that KNUT and its employer can reach an amicable agreement on matters regarding tutors.
"At the time I was contesting, the membership had shrunk from 187,000 in the month of June 2019 to about 15,000," he stated referring to the debilitating state he found KNUT in.
"The numerous cases that we have in court tying the hands of teachers on one hand and also tying the hands of the employer, on the other hand, we agreed to pull down all cases to start on a new slate," Oyuu acknowledged.
In reference to the 16,000 tutors, he affirmed that they would receive their perks before the end of August 2021.
The development comes as the second meeting on the 2021-2025 CBA negotiations between the TSC and the teachers' unions is slated for Tuesday, July 13.
The first-round talks ended up in a standoff as both parties could not agree on the terms.
KNUT alongside the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) maintained their stance that the new deal ought to involve salary increments as well as promotions.
After the first meeting, TSC boss Nancy Macharia recently announced that the commission sought to break the stalemate with the unions by conducting a second-round talk on the CBA deal.
