Since its inception in 1957, the Kenya national union of teachers, K.N.U.T, has remained the largest and strongest workers’ union advocating for teachers’ rights. The position of secretary general regarded as the most powerful. The union’s stability has however been threatened in recent years culminating in a crescendo during its 6th secretary general Wilson Sossion’s time of leadership. His acceptance of the ODM party’s nomination into the national assembly further compounding the union’s fortunes as the teacher’s service commission went on to deregister him from the teachers’ roll.  KTN'S Allan Ochanda interrogates whether Sossion’s political stand is intertwined with the struggling union’s problems.