Nyanza Teachers collectively reject TSC teaching vacancies
Teachers from Nyanza collectively reject TSC teaching vacancies claiming the positions had not provided promotion opportunities for all the categories
Teachers from Nyanza collectively reject TSC teaching vacancies claiming the positions had not provided promotion opportunities for all the categories.
The announcement of teaching openings issued a week ago by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been roundly rejected by the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers in the Nyanza region.
The union said the vacancies are limited and have not provided promotion opportunities for all the categories of the teaching staff as was expected.
Akelo Misori, the secretary general of KUPPET, and other officials claimed that there had been an unsettling level of stagnation in several job groups among their members in the region for the past ten years and that TSC’s current job openings had not done much to address the issue.
“There’s a lot of disappointment in the advert for the job groups C3 and C4 since they’ve suffered a serious historical injustice in terms of promotion,” echoed Misori.
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The C3 is a promotional grade for teachers in secondary school and the C4 is a promotional grade for institutional administrators in secondary schools.
He said that in order to address the more than 45,000 stagnancies in the designated job groups, over 45,000 openings were anticipated to be announced.
Steven Yogo, the union’s executive secretary in Homa Bay, noted that there had been discrimination in the announcement of such vacancies and when done only a few are targeted.
“Diploma teachers are getting demotivated because very few slots have been given. If the government of Kenya really values teachers as it purports then parliament should allocate money to ensure teachers that have been stagnant in these job groups are promoted and motivated for once,” said Yogo.
He urged TSC to take any negotiation with the union seriously, saying that KUPPET was ready to work with the government on condition that their members’ welfare was catered for as agreed.
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