Kenya: 280,000 public school teachers strike – disrupt start of new school term

Teacher in Nairobi, Kenya with his students. PHOTO/File

Union organizers say nearly 280,000 teachers in Kenya are staying away from work to demand long overdue pay raises, paralyzing resumption of classes after holidays.

Wilson Sossion, chairman of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), said Monday that its 240,000 members did not report to work, responding to a call to strike by the union. And AKelo Misori, the secretary general of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers, said its 38,000 members had not shown up for work on Monday.

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