TSC and teachers' unions must find common ground

TSC CEO Nancy Macharia chats with KNUT Secretary General Collins Oyuu and his KUPPET counterpart Akelo Misori during the release of 2021 KCPE results at the Mitihani house. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Plans by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to amend the TSC ACT of 2012 have elicited opposition from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).

TSC seeks more powers through the amendment of 11 sections of the Act. Both unions gave a stakeholders consultative meeting called by TSC recently a wide berth as a sign of protest to what they believe is their employer trying to ride roughshod over them. It doesn't sit well with teachers that TSC seeks to determine their remuneration and what punishment to give errant teachers without bringing them on board.