{"id":4506,"date":"2008-09-21T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/09\/kenya-teachers-split-over-strike\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T06:25:37","slug":"kenya-teachers-split-over-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/09\/kenya-teachers-split-over-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Teachers split over strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Nation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/News\/-\/1056\/472312\/-\/tktrfx\/-\/\">Teachers split over strike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Summary<\/p>\n<p>    * Knut has dismissed a strike call by Kuppet and asked its members to ignore it.<br \/>\n    * The Government is said to have agreed to harmonise salaries to match those of civil servants in similar job groups.<br \/>\n    * Kuppet said that members were defecting from Knut as a lot of money was being deducted from their salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions are on a collision course over a planned strike for better salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The strike call has pitted the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) against the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) in a battle for control of the teaching fraternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Nation: Teachers split over strike In Summary * Knut has dismissed a strike call by Kuppet and asked its members to ignore it. * The Government is said to have agreed to harmonise salaries to match those of civil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/09\/kenya-teachers-split-over-strike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strikes-labor-disputes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}