Kuppet calls off strike, orders members to resume duty
Teachers Service Commission Secretary Gabriel Lengoiboni (right) peruses the agreement that the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) and TSC signed July 5, 2013 at TSC offices in Nairobi. He is flanked by Kuppet secretary general Akello Misori (centre) and chairman Omboko Milemba (left) JENNIFER MUIRURI
The Kenya Post Primary Education Teachers has called off its strike and ordered members to resume duty.
Kuppet ended the strike Friday after signing a return-to-work agreement with its employer, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Kuppet Secretary-General Akelo Misori said the union’s National Governing Council had met and agreed to suspend the strike in order to allow talks.
"Kuppet believes in the rule of law and shall obey the orders of the Court issued on July 1. We cannot go against the court. We have always been willing to obey court orders,” Mr Misori said during a press conference at the Railways Club in Nairobi Tuesday.
As part of the agreement signed on Friday, the teachers, who have been on strike for two weeks, will be paid their June salaries in full.
Last Friday, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi warned teachers that the government would withhold their pay if they did not return to work.
Rival union Kenya National Teachers Union (Knut) has maintained that its members will only go back to classrooms after the government meets the teachers' demand.
