Flights disrupted at Kenya’s main airport pursuing staff strike – Tek Portal
Hundreds of travellers have been still left stranded Wednesday morning outside the house Kenya’s primary global airport in the Kenyan capital Nairobi as flights had to be rescheduled for quite a few several hours later on than their formal acquire off time.
Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz mentioned 24 departing flights and two arriving flights had been interrupted, Kenya Tv Community described.
Ten people today have been arrested in link with the strike, and are still becoming held, a single of the arrested, Moss Ndiea, secretary standard for the Kenya Aviation Workers Union (KAWU) — the organization calling for the strike — explained to CNN.
“Though we were being collected police were being sent and they arrested me. The government and individuals with vested interest are applying the police as an instrument to silence workers. They have resorted to challenging ways to arrest and mishandle innocent workers. We have the correct to assembly,” Ndiea claimed.
Ndiea claimed about 2,000 employees assembled to strike on Wednesday morning including cabin crew, ground operations, shopper treatment, check out in employees and protection staff.
The workers are putting over “lousy problems of do the job, corruption and theft of assets” the union leader reported.
Among the issues are that workers’ salaries have not been reviewed in the previous four years and the “takeover and privatization of the airport,” Ndiea explained.
“JKIA is a public entity owned by the authorities. We elevated the dispute all over that mainly because you are unable to surrender a national asset, which is managed by Kenya Airports Authority to an airline which is in non-public fingers with no any thanks approach,” Ndiea explained.
The union issued a 7-working day strike recognize that ended at midnight Tuesday triggering functions to be grounded this early morning.
Kenya Airways had proposed a bid to get in excess of the management of the airport from Kenya Airports Authority in December, a plan that has been opposed by the aviation union.
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