KQ on a hot bed ??

[SIERRA ECHO XRAY]

Just got info that Kenya Airways' cabin crew ,ramp rats and all other support staff are downing their tools today until decent salaries are negotiated......Well, its about time.....Good luck fellas

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Kenya Airways Faces ‘Paralyzing’ Strike Over Wages (Update1) Share | Email | Print | A A A

By Sarah McGregor

Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at Kenya Airways Ltd., sub- Saharan Africa’s third-biggest airline, said they will begin a strike over pay aimed at “paralyzing” the carrier’s services.

About 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, Jimi Masege, general secretary of the Aviation and Allied Workers Union, said in an interview today from Nairobi, the capital.

“We are trying to paralyze all the flights for Kenya Airways,” he said. “Without us, flights cannot take off.”

The labor union is demanding a 130 percent increase in salaries as well as subsidies for meals, transport and housing. Management has offered to raise wages by 8 percent and cover all “fixed” allowances over the next two years. Annual inflation in Kenya was 17.8 percent in July, unchanged from the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics said on July 31.

Kenya Airways is continuing talks with the labor union in a bid to avert the strike, though it expects to “continue business” should the stoppage go ahead, Dick Omondi, a spokesman for the company, said in a phone interview from Nairobi today.

“We have a plan that will ensure continuity,” Omondi said, without elaborating. “Our interest is not to have a disruption and to reach an amicable solution.”

Kenya’s Industrial Court on Aug. 10 issued a “temporary stay” order prohibiting the planned strike and scheduled a follow-up hearing for Aug. 17.

South African Airways and Ethiopian Airlines Corp. are sub- Saharan Africa’s biggest airlines by passenger numbers, according to the International Air Transport Association.

Kenya Airways stock rose 0.25 shillings, or 1 percent, to 25 shillings on the Nairobi Stock Exchange as of 12:45 p.m. local time today.

To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah McGregor in Nairobi at [email protected].
Last Updated: August 13, 2009 06:20 EDT

[atco749]

KQ seems to have survived.....strike is on but the birds still flying.......though only around 50% of the flights.....

[ETStar]

^^ Unfortunately he same cannot be said about today with the majority of KQ flights cancelled ex-NBO.

KQ 102 London - LHR 23:45 -- -- Boarding
KQ 860 Bangkok 23:10 -- -- Gate open
KQ 618 Mombasa 22:30 -- -- --
KQ 416 Entebbe 22:00 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 112 Paris 21:55 -- -- Gate open
KQ 404 Addis ababa 21:45 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 726 Lilongwe 21:35 -- -- Cancelled
PW 728 Kilimanjaro 21:30 21:30 21:35 Departed
KQ 310 Dubai 19:10 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 542 Lagos 17:40 -- -- --
KQ 320 Cairo 17:20 -- -- Cancelled
SV 430 Jeddah 13:30 13:30 14:35 Departed
M7 325 Khartoum 13:00 -- -- Departed
KQ 412 Entebbe 12:55 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 608 Mombasa 12:45 -- -- Delayed
PW 717 Dar es salaam 12:45 12:45 13:10 Departed
ET 801 Kilimanjaro 12:45 12:45 13:20 Departed
KQ 472 Kigali 12:30 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 464 Bujumbura 12:20 -- -- Cancelled
JO 753 Kisumu 12:00 -- -- --
PW 712 Zanzibar 11:40 11:40 12:30 Departed
5H 443 Kilimanjaro 11:30 11:30 13:00 Departed
KQ 104 London - LHR 10:50 17:10 -- Departed
5H 431 Kisumu 10:40 -- -- --
5H 441 Zanzibar 10:40 11:20 -- Delayed
PW 722 Kilimanjaro 10:35 10:35 12:35 Departed
KQ 552 Lumbumbashi 10:20 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 552 Lumbumbashi 10:20 -- -- --
KQ 446 Moroni 10:15 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 606 Mombasa 10:10 10:10 13:40 Departed
5H 411 Malindi 10:00 10:00 10:05 Departed
XU 712 Juba 10:00 -- -- --
JO 833 Juba 10:00 -- -- Gate open
B5 813 Juba 10:00 10:00 10:10 Departed
WB 108 Kigali 10:00 10:00 10:20 Departed
KQ 722 Lusaka 09:45 09:45 12:35 Departed
KQ 720 Harare 09:40 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 508 Monrovia 09:35 -- -- Cancelled
JO 451 Mombasa 09:30 09:30 10:40 Departed
KQ 520 Dakar 09:25 -- -- Cancelled
VS 672 London - LHR 09:15 09:15 09:20 Departed
KQ 762 Johannesburg 09:10 09:10 13:05 Departed
KQ 116 Amsterdam 08:40 08:40 10:45 Departed
KQ 452 Dzoudzi 08:40 09:50 -- Cancelled
KQ 602 Mombasa 08:30 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 730 Lilongwe 08:25 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 410 Entebbe 08:25 12:50 12:50 Departed
PW 750 Mwanza 08:25 08:25 08:25 Departed
KQ 456 Antananarivo 08:20 -- -- Cancelled
PW 710 Zanzibar 08:20 08:50 08:50 Departed
KQ 480 Dar es salaam 08:05 08:35 08:35 Departed
JO 353 Eldoret 08:00 07:55 07:55 Departed
PW 712 Zanzibar 08:00 08:00 12:30 Departed
KQ 470 Bujumbura 07:50 -- -- Cancelled
PW 724 Kilimanjaro 07:50 08:12 -- Boarding
KQ 476 Kigali 07:45 -- -- Cancelled
B5 701 Kisumu 07:45 -- -- --
KQ 550 Brazzaville 07:35 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 312 Dubai 07:30 08:45 08:45 Departed
SA 183 Johannesburg 07:30 08:00 08:00 Departed
KQ 532 Lagos 07:30 -- -- Cancelled
JO 751 Kisumu 07:15 08:05 08:05 Departed
KQ 652 Kisumu 07:10 -- -- Cancelled
5H 421 Entebbe 07:00 -- -- --
5H 417 Mombasa 06:45 06:55 06:55 Departed
5H 407 Kisumu 06:45 -- 07:00 Departed
KQ 600 Mombasa 06:40 -- -- Cancelled
KQ 760 Johannesburg 06:35 -- -- Cancelled
MS 850 Cairo 04:30 08:25 08:25 Departed
TK 1130 Istanbul 02:30 -- 02:35 Departed

[jetpet]

the strike has been called off, or at least thats the latest on the website, however dont think the management have agreed with the union....