What role has UNATU played to ensure teachers are professional and provide quality education?
We have programmes where we invite our members in different districts and sensitise them on their roles. We have the in-service training every year where we train teachers giving them refresher courses. We have the HIV programme where we invite our members and talk about issues related to HIV and sensitise them on behaviour change, because the HIV impact on us is causing absenteeism. We also have a programme called Teachers Action for Girls (TAG) where we sensitise our members, senior ladies and men, in the schools to make sure that the learners entrusted to us don’t slip out of our hands. What achievements have you registered so far as UNATU? A lot. The scheme of service, the professional ladder is our brain child. We didn’t have professional ladders and when we introduced it, the Government took it up. We also advocated for salary increment and we were able to get a bumper harvest in 2006. We were able to increase the salary from sh130, 000 to sh200, 000. We have been able to advocat
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