{"id":93139,"date":"2024-09-18T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/uasu-kusu-go-on-strike-over-delayed-salaries-medical-cover\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:04:06","slug":"uasu-kusu-go-on-strike-over-delayed-salaries-medical-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uasu-kusu-go-on-strike-over-delayed-salaries-medical-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"UASU, KUSU go on strike over delayed salaries, medical cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 18 \u2013 University staff members under the Universities Academic Staff Union and the Kenya Universities Staff Union have kicked off a nationwide strike across public universities over delayed salaries and medical cover.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday, the leaders of the unions further expressed their frustrations over delays in negotiating their members\u2019 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement with the government.<\/p>\n<p>They decried low pay, delayed pay, non-remittance of statutory deduction and failure by the government to implement a comprehensive medical cover.<\/p>\n<p>They stated that they are ready for talks, but will not return to work until a deal is reached.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 18 \u2013 University staff members under the Universities Academic Staff Union and the Kenya Universities Staff Union have kicked off a nationwide strike across public universities over delayed salaries and medical cover. Speaking on Wednesday, the leaders of the unions further expressed their frustrations over delays in negotiating their members\u2019 2021-2025 Collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}