Pay by midnight or face strike, Kenyan teachers tell employer

Redemptah Nthambi, a shop attendant (left), helps students to fit shoes on a back-to-school shopping Sunday. (PHOTO: DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD)

NAIROBI: Public schools reopen today to an uncertain start of the third term after teachers’ unions declared a strike to press Government to honour a 50-60 salary increment.

But the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) last evening asked parents to take their children to school today, arguing the strike was illegal because it had not received a notice from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET).