VISION STATEMENT
KPUWU is at the forefront of empowering workers to familiarize in their struggle for justice and humane conditions of work to improve the quality of their lives along with contributing to the attainment of social justice and sustainable development in an atmosphere of democracy, solidarity, and faith in God.
MISSION STATEMENT
Uphold the dignity of labour, preserve, strengthen, and protect human dignity and trade Union rights as per the Kenyan Constitution.
BACKGROUND OF THE UNION
KENYA PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES WORKERS UNION was first registered on 22nd January 2013 as Kenya private universities non-teaching workers union, in terms of the Labor Relations Act, 2007, laws of Kenya. The Union was founded by Mr. Peter E Owiti this was after he met workers suffering as he was taking a course in Human resource, in one of the private universities. He was drawn to solve those problems by first looking for a union to help these workers, but there was none after some consultation with the labor office he was advised to start one. So he registered a union as Kenya private universities non-teaching workers Union then later the lectures demanded to be also incorporated, so he later changed the name to Kenya Private Universities workers union since then he has represented over a thousand workers. The Union went into full operation in the same year.
THE KPUWU STATEMENT OF VALUES:
- To provide first class collective and individual representation for all KPUWU members;
- To achieve security of employment for all members;
- To offer individual membership services of the highest quality;
- To expand trade union membership throughout the Country;
- To promote, by industrial and political means, the success of the industries in which our members work;
- To campaign against all forms of discrimination;
- To further these objectives by promoting the influence of the union throughout the national and international community.
