Robin Obino @PeopleDailyKe
Lecturers in public universities have petitioned the government to implement their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that awarded them Sh10 billion.
The lecturers insisted on the implementation of the 2013-2017 CBA signed between Kenya Universities Staff Union (Kusu), University Management Board and the Inter-Public Universities’ Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF).
They presented their petition yesterday as the strike entered its fifth day with dons giving the government a one-week ultimatum to implement the CBA to end the strike.
Addressing the striking lecturers outside Jogoo House, KUSU secretary general Charles Mukkwaya said the workers last received a pay rise in 2010.
He stressed the need for the plight of university staff to be addressed immediately calling on President Uhuru Kenyatta to personally intervene on the matter.
“We are not interested in “good portions” that the government claims, in a section of the media today (Thursday), to have released. All we want is a full deal,” he said.
According to the three unions representing public universities; Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers(Kudheiha), Kusu and Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu), the government had promised on February 2017 to seal the deal by June but has since gone mum on the matter.
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