At the same time, teachers’ unions Knut and Kuppet emerged as big winners after the signing of the historic Collective Bargaining Agreement, as they will now get agency fees from the 65,000 teachers who are not their members. Some 65,000 teachers who are not affiliated to two unions will part with monthly fees to enjoy the new salary deal that becomes effective on July 1, 2017. Officials of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) said yesterday that all teachers not registered with them would pay a heavy price to benefit from the new pay agreement. In a communication just two days after they signed the Sh54 billion deal, Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion said non-union teachers would pay agency fees at a given percentage calculated on their basic salaries. The two unions charge agency fees at the same rate of monthly union dues deductions.

Source: Standard Digital October 27, 2016 19:12 UTC