JSS teachers fault unions for ignoring their needs

Teachers pose for photo with Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna during a luncheon he hosted to celebrate World Teachers Day at a Nairobi hotel. [Okumu Modachi, Standard]

Junior Secondary School teachers have blasted the two major teachers' unions for slighting their welfare needs and are pushing to have an independent union.

The teachers, who spoke during a World Teachers Day luncheon hosted by Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna, raised welfare concerns, citing poor pay and bad working conditions that have remained unaddressed.