Stalemate as VCs fail to agree with payment schedule

By Standard Digital Reporter

NAIROBI, KENYA: The end to the university staff strike remains elusive after vice chancellors fail to agree with the payment schedule prepared by a technical team drawn from public universities and unions.

Following the stalemate, University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) maintained that the strike is still on.

The Standard learnt that a 13-member committee that was tasked with the drafting of an acceptable payment schedule had made good progress by Tuesday evening.

“We had an expanded team with three officials drawn from the Ministry of Labour. From where we sit, we believe that they may agree on a formula,” said Kenya University Staff Union (Kusu) Secretary General Charles Mukhwaya.

Mukhwaya said the team was only waiting for the vice chancellors to arrive at the Ministry of Labour offices to complete the exercise.

Education PS Bellio Kipsang had earlier said they would impress upon the unions to call off the strike because it was fast becoming a crisis.