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Kenyan Airways threaten strikeove Jambo Jet routes allafrica
So last year
12/24/10 Kenya Airways strike threat over
12 Nov Kenyan Airways management and unions to report to court 26 Nov. on progress of talks.
Kenya Airways strike Oct 13, indefinite..
9/14 Are you flying into Kenya next Monday? You may fly into a power black out. Kenya Power and Light threaten indefinite strike.
4 Oct. Kenya airways union threatens strike
31, August, 2010 Airline workers union, Aviation and Allied Workers, complain that deal made after last years three day strike has not been implemented ie 20% pay raise, productivity allowance, flying, layover, engineering and night allowances. If no agreement is made by Monday expect baggage handlers, ground crews and air control to join in the strike which is to start Tuesday, 7, September.
2 April, 2010 Kenya Airway's would like to inform its customers, investors and the general public that there is no planned Union action or strike from its staff who are members of AAWU contrary to reports appearing in some parts of the media.
Aug. 2009 Strike by flight attendants, engineers and other ground staff.
8/20/09 Two day strike cost Kenya Airways Sh600 million in lost revenue, aralysed local and international flights, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded at airports in Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa.
8/16/09 Kenya Airways strike ended. Union and management agreed on a pay raise off twenty pecent over two years and withdrawal of dismissal letters.
14, Aug, 09 Six leaders of the Aviation and Allied Workers Union, the employees' body, were arrested by police at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport before dawn as they addressed staff. They were charged with unlawful assembly and later released on bail. 3 planes only took off from Jomo Kenyatta International, staff were physically escorted to plane by police and management. Hundreds of passengers have had flights cancelled,
13 Aug, 3,500 engineers, check-in staff, clerical workers and baggage handlers plan to stop work at midnight local time and stage peaceful demonstrations outside Kenya’s airports,
11 Aug, 09 Kenya’s Industrial Court prohibited a planned strike by aviation
industry workers. Next hearing Monday, Aug. 17
Union will defy ban and illegally strike Friday at midnight on Aug. 14. (date change)
Kenya Airways management and AAWU officials have been directed to appear before the industrial court on September 17 at 9 am.
10 August, 2009 Kenya Airways workers to strike Thursday, night, 13 August, 09 expect flight disruptions world wide. Based in Mombasa, Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Moi International Airport in Mombasa, expect severe flight delays, Mombassa, Entebbe (Kampala) and world wide.
Why? Pay negotiations, union wants a 130 per cent raise. Lowest paid worker earns Shillings 8,000, which they want increased to about Shillings 20,000.($289) Allowances for housing, transport and meals. Entry level air stewards earn about 34,000 shillings. Also the reinstatement of 300 cabin crew staff who had been laid off.
Union spokesman Jimi Masege “We write to inform you that services at the airports such as fire cover, air rescue, air traffic control services and security and safety at the airport shall be withdrawn,”
“We are trying to paralyze all the flights for Kenya Airways,” he said. “Without us, flights cannot take off.”
Fire cover and air rescue staff are stand-by fire fighters employed by the Kenya Airports Authority while the security and safety crews guard the airport and carry out security checks on passengers and cargo.
Air traffic controllers are employed by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority while the ground engineers and service staff are hired by the airlines.
Mangement has offered to raise wages by 8 percent and cover all “fixed” allowances over the next two years.
7/23/09 Kenya Airways increased its trips to Mombasa to 58 in a move meant to counter Air Kenya’s 35 flights per week.
The twenty-one-day strike notice issued by the union as per the Labour Relations Act runs out mid night of August 11 with the strike to have commenced the following day August 12.
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Kenya Airways,based in Nairobi,Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Moi International Airport in Mombasa, travels world wide, London, Mumbai, Paris, Spain, Mombassa Entebbe (Kampala) being busiest routes. Part-owned by Air France-KLM and codeshares with KLM, Air France and Korean Air.
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Aviation and Allied Workers Union secretary general Jimi Masege,represents 3,465 workers, 2,800 cabin crew, clerical workers, engineers, cargo handlers and loading agents and controllers
Pilots belong to a different union. Agreed last year on a contract that runs until March 2010,
