The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has reported that four of its individuals have conferred suicide taking after the withholding of September compensations by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Talking in Kisumu amid the union's Nyanza Regional Annual General Meeting, KNUT National Treasurer John Matiang'i said withholding the union's reasonings is further entangling the matter.
"Individuals from the union are living in extremely troublesome times, constraining a few educators to confer suicide," said Matiangi.
He spoke to President Uhuru Kenyatta to intercede and request that the TSC pay the September pay that was withheld taking after the educators' strike.
Reports demonstrated that a few educators are taking drugs and can't bear to buy pharmaceutical for their different sicknesses.
He included that educators ought not be misled over the September's strike, taking note of that the Court had ruled it lawful.
The treasurer said findings for the unions ought to be dispensed since it is inside of the law, guaranteeing that union individuals have educated their managers to make the conclusions month to month.
On its part, TSC turned down the administration of gathering settlements for both KNUT and Kuppet, which depend singularly on instructors' derivations to run its operations.
Reports demonstrate that throughout the years, TSC has been gathering educators' conclusions specifically from their pay rates and directing them to the Unions on a month to month premise
The determination makes it troublesome for the educators' unions to get the cash straightforwardly from its individuals, in this manner handicapping their operations.
KNUT gathers about Sh1.6 billion a year, meaning Sh135 million month to month from 206,000 instructors, while Kuppet, which has 34,000 individuals, gathers about Sh35 million a month totalling to Sh425 million a year.
The two Unions gather about Sh2 billion every year as enrollment charge from 240,000 educators the nation over at the rate of two for each penny of fundamental compensation.
Figures from TSC demonstrate that that around 48,060 educators are not connected to any union; the greater part of them are school heads in light of the fact that the law does not permit them to appreciate such rights.