The top leaders of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) Moi University chapter have received suspension letters after vowing to continue with their strike.
The leaders said they began receiving the letters Tuesday morning despite being served with court orders demanding the suspension of their industrial actions
“Moi University has started handing in dismissal letters. As of now, they have already handed the letter to the leadership of all the university staff unions. All the leaders have been given the notice,” Wegesa stated.
While speaking to the press, the secretary general of the chapter Busolo Wekesa claim there is a plot to block the resumption of learning in the intuition after weeks of the university closure
According to Busolo, the lecturers will only resume classes once their demand anchored in the 2021/2025 CBA is fully implemented
“We just want them to pay our loans and all the deductions that they have taken from us. They should pay us, then we will come back to work. A salary is our right so you cannot tell us to get back to work just because you paid our salaries. We haven’t been paid for two months,” she stated.
“They are trying to divide and rule. They are giving suspension letters selectively, feeding us fear. We want to tell the management and the government that this has greatly fueled us to work more.”
Busolo has also announced the cancellation of end of this year’s graduation saying all the plans to confer the students who have completed their course with their certificates have been thrown into a spin following the strike.
Wegesa went on to reveal that despite Members of Parliament directing the University management to discuss terms with the university employees, they did not heed the directive and instead started handing in warning letters before the committee left the premises on Friday, November 6.
“We believe there is someone who does not want Moi University issues to be discussed so they want to hide them by pushing the employees away,” he stated.