For Immediate release!
DATED: 11th November 2024
Good evening, UASU members. I hope this finds you all well.On 22nd October 2024, the UASU National Secretary General gave a Seven Day Notice of aNational Strike across ALL PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES that took effect on the 29th of October 2024.
This Notice followed concerted efforts by the National Office to:
- Negotiate, Conclude, Register, and Implement the 2021/25 National Collective Bargaining Agreement as per the law and Recognition Agreement Executed on 28th October 2019 between UASU and the Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF)2.
- Negotiate, Conclude, Register, and Implement Chapter Collective Agreements in the UoNcase for 2017/21, which could pave the way for the 2021/25 cycle. The trigger that led to the current industrial action was the FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT THEAGREED AND SIGNED RETURN-TO-WORK-FORMULA DATED 26TH SEP. 2024 BY IPUCCF,MINISTRY OF LABOUR & SOCIAL PROTECTION, AND THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.
The main reason for this communique is to address a Memo by the DVC AA, meant to threaten, intimidate and coerce UASU Members who are simply following a stern directive by their Union.
First, known University protocols stipulate that the DVC AA is NOT a supervisor of lecturers. Such imagined powers are misplaced, misinformed and therefore amount to a nullity. Secondly, ropingin students in the same Memo by attempting to threaten them into submission of a misinformeddirective, is not only dishonorable and wildly incendiary, but it also targets an innocentconstituency who bear the brunt of an insensitive Government.
LET ME REPEAT, THE STRIKE GOES ON UNABATED!! UASU does NOT scare easy, will NOTrelinquish this mantra unless by direction from the NATIONAL SECRETARY GENERAL, UASU.
UASU-UoN MEMBERS, STRIKE UNTIL A DEAL IS STRUCK!! SOLIDARITY FOREVER
.Regards,
Dr. Maloba Wekesa
UASU UoN Chapter Secretary
Let’s just come back next semester
Yeah this is gone already
What should university students do at this moment. Should they go home? Should they stay in the respective universities? Please give a final Memo to direct students whether they should go home or stay at the universities.
Is the strike still on going or not because some of us comrades have already gone home.
we shall just meet next semester
This strike is just like a waste of time. Just imgn going for laboratory sessions as lectures’ strike. I feel bad about it.
Let UASU just give a memo directing students to go home until th strike us over.
Let’s come back next semester.
This semester is already gone.
The strike should continue till the deal is struck
Is the meeting scheduled for Wednesday still on?
This semester is a set up icl.
All students are directed to vacate immediately.
But utalii students who are also students of UoN -Ba hospitality & Tourism & Travel have scheduled exams secretly with their lecturers & commencing today at utalii college. The exams are being supervised by the lecturers.
Let’s call it a year guys.
Merry Christmas & happy new year in advance 🎉
Is the strike ongoing or not??
Not yet confirmed 😕
What should comrades do then?
In mmust no classes are going on and it’s only 2 weeks to exam ,…..it is wise to call it a semester cause weeuh 💔
In KU our exam is scheduled to start on 21st. We just received a memo asking us to attend classes that lecturers are not attending. This’s so confusing, we should be given a way forward atleast 🙁.
We as comrades we’re so frustrated. Universities should give us direction.
Should we go home or should we stay in our respective universities
As comrades we need to be given a clear way forward because we’re confused and the exams are around so give a clear answer is the strike continuing or not
Give comrades a clear stand.
Everything is so quiet as if it’s a normal routine situation, I wonder how the government carries ou it’s obligation moreso the educational docket. Sometimes it’s regretful to have a family head who only cater for their own benefit, caring less about others, this offensive really pinches 😭😭
We are stuck. Doing absolutely nothing in university. Memo should be released to give us the way forward. Either to go home or remain in campuses
You NEED to give us answer UASU. Do we stay at uni or go home? This is ridiculous and unfair to us students. The whole semester has now been wasted. Tell us now.
Let me travel home
Can you please tell us what we shall do as comrades now that you lecturers have taken your way
Let’s meet next year pleas
Let we as comrades be given direction
What about our this semester paid fees will you refund us or how do we do about it?
Lecturers are also human being like any other,let them have their right served too no matter how long it will take cause as comrades we are okay.
At Jkuat medical Microbiology department practical session continues as usual. I’m even going for a CAT today from 10 am. This is ridiculous.
So sorry for you hata sisi uon Chiromo campus laboratory session is still going on
We as comrades demand a clear direction
Msikubali kubebwa ufala 😂. Mgome mpaka mlipwe pesa yenu yote
Let’s follow the order. The order was “for a immediate release “rules must be followed and suggest that students to home and for next year and they must be funded back.
Let’s follow the order. The order was “for a immediate release “rules must be followed and i suggest that students to go home and waite next year and they must be funded back there money for the paid semester .
I can see uon Chiromo campus laboratory session is still going on yet lecturers are on strike also Egerton university are still on classes
At least we have enough time for revision . I don’t know what I would write in exams
At DeKUT we have all laboratory sessions going on. I had one yesterday though all our CATs have been put on hold
You’re lucky 😔
Give comrades a clear stand.
We want a clear memo to answer a question whether we will continue with the current semester or start afresh coming next year
we are at the moi university kesses and for your information no classes going on and students are just goiground enjoying themselves
am really disappointed that after all this time wasted, the Chuka university administration still feels it fit to fix exams and force students to attend lectures up to late hours. That>s uncalled for
MAYBE AN ALTERNATIVE SHOULD BE TO CALL OFF EXAMS UNTIL THE NEW YEAR EVE