Students at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) Kisumu want the teachers’ strike that happened yesterday to be called off.
A student at KMTC who sort anonymity said that the strike has affected their examination schedule.
Speaking to journalists yesterday, KMTC Secretary General Student’s representative Kisumu branch Peter Isasi said that he has already communicated to KMTC headquarters saying students are suffering as a result of the strike by the staff.
Isasi said most students have paid school fees and that the most affected are students doing parallel courses who would fail to access education.
On Tuesday, teaching was paralysed at KMTC Kisumu as teaching and non-teaching staff boycotted work due to non-payment of a collective bargaining agreement hike.
The Kenya Union of Domestic Hotels, Educational Institutions and Hospitals workers union (Kudheiha) Kisumu secretary Enos Keronze said their union national officials signed a CBA in 2012 but that has not been effected.
Keronze said they are demanding an accrued salary hike of 24 per cent. He said the union had given a seven-day notice to the college director that expired occasioning the strike.
He said they will be on strike as long as it takes until the college management pays the CBA. The students threatened to join the strike by Thursday if the government fails to address the issue.