{"id":8796,"date":"2013-06-30T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-govt-ready-to-negotiate-with-striking\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:03:28","slug":"kenya-govt-ready-to-negotiate-with-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-govt-ready-to-negotiate-with-striking\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Govt Ready to Negotiate with Striking Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya&#8217;s Deputy President William Ruto over the weekend urged striking teachers to hold negotiations with the government and end the stalemate over their allowances demands.}}<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ruto also wondered why the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) had refused to negotiate with the Jubilee government yet it did so with previous regimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen the union negotiate with Moi and Kibaki regimes. Only talks can help us get our children back to class,\u201d said Mr Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers strike enters second week with the union stating that members will continue boycotting classes even as the government threatens to withhold their June salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Knut national chairman Wilson Sossion has repeatedly argued that the Collective Bargaining Agreement (1997) has to be implemented in full and that teachers will refuse new offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not ready to meet them (government) as they want to introduce a new CBA without fully implementing the 1997 agreement,&#8221; said Mr Sossion.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ruto asked the teachers&#8217; union to meet the Cabinet Secretaries for Labour and Education to find an amicable solution.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3117 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ruto.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Kenya&#8217;s Deputy President William Ruto (centre) after being installed as a Teso community elder on June 29, 2013}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya&#8217;s Deputy President William Ruto over the weekend urged striking teachers to hold negotiations with the government and end the stalemate over their allowances demands.}} Mr Ruto also wondered why the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) had refused to negotiate with the Jubilee government yet it did so with previous regimes. \u201cWe have seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}