UASU Secretary General Constantine Wesonga. His union has insisted that they must get their CBA fully before calling off the strike. [Photo/Star]
University Academic Staff Union officials have met with the universities’ management, in a bid to end a strike that has paralyzed learning in public universities.
The meeting started early Wednesday morning, even though reports indicate that they are far from agreeing on any potential deal.
The strike, which has been going on for more than a month now has impaired learning in 31 public universities across the country.
The strike has consequently affected the universities’ learning programme, with exams that were to be done now a pipe dream.
They are demanding for the implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that they say has not been honoured by the government.
“As a union, we don’t want the strike. Our wish is that the reforms being implemented by the ministry of education should also include how to negotiate CBA in public universities,” said UASU Chairman Muga K’Olale while addressing journalist a week ago.
“We don’t want to interrupt any academic calendar. Reforms should also be geared towards the human resource,” he added.
The September-December semester for public universities will now have to be extended, to enable the students to cover their syllabus.
This is the second strike that the lecturers are staging, after one that they staged in January which affected a whole semester.