UASU Stories
The amendments, currently facing a legal challenge, were widely seen as a strategy to help long-serving officials retain control.
As the financial dispute remains unresolved, the strike has amplified existing challenges in public universities, including crumbling infrastructure a...
The unions are demanding payment of Sh7.9 billion in arrears from the 2017–2021 CBA, full settlement of the 2021–2025 CBA, and the immediate start of...
Despite the suspension of the strike by the courts, UASU has vowed to continue industrial action until all its demands are met.
CS Ogamba said the Employment and Labour Relations Court had issued an order earlier on Thursday stopping the industrial action, pending a legally san...
CS Ogamba confirmed on Tuesday that the National Treasury had disbursed the funds, urging lecturers to suspend the strike notice issued on September 1...
UASU had issued a seven-day strike notice last week, accusing the government of failing to honour its commitments under the current CBA and demanding...
Despite efforts to hire more qualified staff, public institutions still face a shortage of PhD holders, an ageing pool of professors, and high depende...
UASU Secretary General Constantine Wasonga said the government had failed to fulfil negotiated and registered CBAs, leaving lecturers with no choice b...
The parties also agreed to promote 56 lecturers who had been interviewed in December last year and to review the statute governing the appointment of...
UASU official Duncan Mukhwana said the union is aware of attempts to force lecturers back to work through threats of termination.
Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof Kiplagat Kotut, said the University is actively engaging with UASU leadership, the Ministry of Education, and other relev...
The changes, made under the authority of various sections of the Universities Act, are intended to reinforce governance, policy oversight, and institu...
The University Academic Staff Union argues that KEMRI’s decision to retire staff at 65 is unlawful and violates an existing collective bargaining agre...
The failure to release the remaining funds has disrupted learning and forced institutions to operate under tight financial strain, despite continuing...
The university says the retrenchment is expected to save Sh120 million each month, though MPs have questioned the legality, fairness, and timing of th...
Kenya University Staff Union, Moi University Chapter, said staff were being declared redundant without dialogue, only for their roles to be outsourced...
Wasonga demanded that the university revoke all redundancy letters and reinstate the affected workers, noting that Education Cabinet Secretary Julius...
The union argues that the layoffs violate the agreed terms between the union and the university management, accusing the institution of bypassing prop...
The EACC has now requested that the acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Margaret Hutchinson, to provide documents related to the university’s properties who...
Some had not paid their rent and were on the verge of being evicted. Others could not afford medical bills, while some were running out of food suppli...
UASU is particularly against proposals such as increasing the frequency of UoN council meetings to bi-weekly and introducing governance changes.
UASU had called for the removal of University Council Chairperson Amukoa Anangwe, whom they accused of sabotaging operations.
According to UASU, powerful government officials are plotting to seize university land located opposite the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and near Ho...
UASU wants the retirement age for graduate assistants, tutorial fellows, assistant lecturers, and junior research fellows to be raised to 70 years.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba revealed on Wednesday that medical students will graduate in March this year.
The Unions decried that the delayed salaries have compounded financial challenges for TUK workers, with unions pointing to the non-remittance of statu...
The unions have directed their members to stay away from work until further instructions are issued.
According to UASU Organising Secretary Onesmus Maluki, the government consented to a salary increase for lecturers, which would be retroactive from Oc...
The President said universities should not deny any student the opportunity to learn and succeed based on their financial background.
