Kenya Universities Staff Union (KUSU) has ordered its employees to escalate the ongoing industrial action to pressurize their employer through the Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) to come to negotiations and table a counter offer to their proposals.
Addressing the media at a hotel in Nakuru, KUSU Deputy Secretary General Aggrey Osogo while reading statement signed by Secretary general Dr. Charles Mukhwana accused the IPUCCF of arm twisting the process and employing schemes to disenfranchise the staff union.
"We shall not be cowed and we are calling upon all our staff across all the universities to upscale the strike and bring total paralysis to the universities operations", he said.
Organizing secretary Ernest Wayaya expressed concern that university education is severely getting affected by the several strikes the staff have to make to be heard.
National Treasurer James Makori dismissed rumours that the KUSU has entered into an agreement with IPUCCF adding that the union will continue pressing on until their demands are met and signed on the table of negotiations.
KUSU members have been on strike since March 1, 2018.