Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) has maintained that the national strike across all Public Universities will continue as planned.
The union castigated Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) in charge of Academic Affairs at University of Nairobi (UoN) for allegedly intimidating its members on strike.
In a notice by the varsity chapter Secretary Dr. Maloba Wekesa, he said that the members are simply following the Union’s directive and the strike can only get direction from the Secretary General.
“University protocols stipulate that the DVC AA is NOT a supervisor of lecturers. Such imagined powers are misplaced, misinformed and therefore amount to a nullity,” he said.
“Roping in students in the same Memo by attempting to threaten them into submission of a misinformed directive, is not only dishonorable and wildly incendiary, but it also targets an innocent constituency who bears the brunt of an insensitive Government,” he added.
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He said that the strike notice followed concerted efforts by the National Office to negotiate, conclude, register, and implement the 2021/25 National Collective Bargaining Agreement as per the law and Recognition Agreement Executed on 28th October 2019 between UASU and the Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF).
“The trigger that led to the current industrial action was the failure to implement the agreed and signed return-to-work-formula dated 26th September 2024 by IPUCCF, Ministry of Labour and social protection, and the Ministry of Education,” he said.
By Obegi Malack
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