- Airport workers in Kenya will resume work after striking an agreement with the government.
According to Kenya’s Nation Daily newspaper, the deal was made after a meeting between Minister of Transport Davis Chirchir, union officials, and Cotu Francis Atwoli, the secretary of the Kenyan Workers Union.
This means that normal operations will now return to JKIA airports as well as those in Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret after services were disabled, resulting in severe losses for multiple flights.
Long lines of stranded passengers hampered flight operations at East Africa’s busiest airport.
As the strike began on Wednesday, social media photos showed a significant number of passengers seeking to reclaim their luggage at the JKIA airport.
The government would enable an assessment of the JKIA airport’s 30-year contract with the Indian company Adani as part of the workers’ agreement to return to work.
Transport Minister Chirchir has guaranteed that the agreement made between the government and the Adani firm will be presented to the court where the government has been sued to allow an open probe into the matter.
In the agreement read by COTU General Secretary Francis Atwoli, they agreed to give airport workers 10 days to evaluate Adani’s contract before holding another meeting with stakeholders.
Similarly, Atwoli has stated that the government has promised to commence salary negotiations with workers, in addition to a new negotiation agreement, within two months.
