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KENYA: Wafanyakazi na Watoa Huduma katika Sekta ya Anga wametangaza kufanya Mgomo kuanzia Agosti 19, 2024 wakipinga kampuni ya Adani Airport Holdings ya India kupewa tenda ya miaka 30 kusimamia na kuendeleza Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Jomo Kenyatta.
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa ya Muungano wa Wafanyakazi wa Usafiri wa Anga nchini Kenya (KAWU), makubaliano kati ya Serikali na Adani yanaenda kuwakosesha kazi kwa kuingiza raia wasio Wakenya kufanya kazi hizo.
Serikali imesema inalazimika kutoa tenda hiyo ili kuongeza ufanisi wa Uwanja kwakuwa uwezo wake umeishia kutoa huduma kwa Wasafiri Milioni 7.5 kwa mwaka. Hata hivyo KAWU imesisitiza Mgomo utasitishwa endapo tu Serikali itafuta makubaliano hayo.
Ikumbukwe, hivi karibuni Kampuni tanzu ya Adani International Ports Holdings Pte Ltd ilitangaza kusaini mkataba wa makubaliano na Mamlaka ya Bandari Tanzania (TPA) kuendesha na kusimamia Temino II katika Bandari ya Dar es Salaam.
Kenya's main aviation union said it would call a strike from next Monday over a proposed deal with an Indian company to develop the country's biggest airport - industrial action that could cause major disruption in the East African travel hub.
The Kenya Aviation Workers Union, which represents airport workers, said the proposed agreement announced last month with India's Adani Airport Holdings would lead to job losses and bring in non-Kenyan workers.
It called on the government to scrap what it referred to as the "unlawful intended sale of JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) to Adani Airport Holdings of India" in a seven-day strike notice issued on Monday.
Kenya's government has said the airport is not for sale and that no decision had been made on whether to proceed with what it called a proposed public-private partnership to upgrade the hub.
An Adani Group spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.
Any walkout could also cause significant disruption to national carrier Kenya Airways (KQNA.NR), opens new tab.
"We shall reconsider our intention to engage in industrial action ... only if the Adani Airport Holdings Limited's deal is abandoned in its entirety," Kenya Aviation Workers Union Secretary General Moss Ndiema said in the strike notice.
He repeated a call for the entire board of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) to resign.
The KAA confirmed on Monday that it had received a strike notice. "We are hopeful that a resolution can be reached through negotiation," spokesperson Elijah Miano said.
The authority has said Adani would add a second runway at JKIA and upgrade the passenger terminal.
Kenya Airways Chief Executive Allan Kilavuka did not respond to a request for comment.
The government said in a statement on the Adani proposal last month that JKIA was stretched beyond its capacity of 7.5 million passengers a year and in urgent need of improvements, citing incidents like leaking roofs which it said had caused "international embarrassment".
The statement said modernising JKIA could cost $2 billion, which the government was "constrained to fund due to the current tight fiscal situation".
It said Adani's offer was currently being reviewed. If a deal is agreed, the government said there would be safeguards to ensure Kenya's national interests are protected.
A nationwide youth-led protest movement that emerged in June over proposed tax hikes has also criticised a perceived lack of transparency over the proposed Adani deal.
Last month police blocked protesters from accessing JKIA, which they had aimed to shut down.
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa ya Muungano wa Wafanyakazi wa Usafiri wa Anga nchini Kenya (KAWU), makubaliano kati ya Serikali na Adani yanaenda kuwakosesha kazi kwa kuingiza raia wasio Wakenya kufanya kazi hizo.
Serikali imesema inalazimika kutoa tenda hiyo ili kuongeza ufanisi wa Uwanja kwakuwa uwezo wake umeishia kutoa huduma kwa Wasafiri Milioni 7.5 kwa mwaka. Hata hivyo KAWU imesisitiza Mgomo utasitishwa endapo tu Serikali itafuta makubaliano hayo.
Ikumbukwe, hivi karibuni Kampuni tanzu ya Adani International Ports Holdings Pte Ltd ilitangaza kusaini mkataba wa makubaliano na Mamlaka ya Bandari Tanzania (TPA) kuendesha na kusimamia Temino II katika Bandari ya Dar es Salaam.
Kenya's main aviation union said it would call a strike from next Monday over a proposed deal with an Indian company to develop the country's biggest airport - industrial action that could cause major disruption in the East African travel hub.
The Kenya Aviation Workers Union, which represents airport workers, said the proposed agreement announced last month with India's Adani Airport Holdings would lead to job losses and bring in non-Kenyan workers.
It called on the government to scrap what it referred to as the "unlawful intended sale of JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) to Adani Airport Holdings of India" in a seven-day strike notice issued on Monday.
Kenya's government has said the airport is not for sale and that no decision had been made on whether to proceed with what it called a proposed public-private partnership to upgrade the hub.
An Adani Group spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.
Any walkout could also cause significant disruption to national carrier Kenya Airways (KQNA.NR), opens new tab.
"We shall reconsider our intention to engage in industrial action ... only if the Adani Airport Holdings Limited's deal is abandoned in its entirety," Kenya Aviation Workers Union Secretary General Moss Ndiema said in the strike notice.
He repeated a call for the entire board of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) to resign.
The KAA confirmed on Monday that it had received a strike notice. "We are hopeful that a resolution can be reached through negotiation," spokesperson Elijah Miano said.
The authority has said Adani would add a second runway at JKIA and upgrade the passenger terminal.
Kenya Airways Chief Executive Allan Kilavuka did not respond to a request for comment.
The government said in a statement on the Adani proposal last month that JKIA was stretched beyond its capacity of 7.5 million passengers a year and in urgent need of improvements, citing incidents like leaking roofs which it said had caused "international embarrassment".
The statement said modernising JKIA could cost $2 billion, which the government was "constrained to fund due to the current tight fiscal situation".
It said Adani's offer was currently being reviewed. If a deal is agreed, the government said there would be safeguards to ensure Kenya's national interests are protected.
A nationwide youth-led protest movement that emerged in June over proposed tax hikes has also criticised a perceived lack of transparency over the proposed Adani deal.
Last month police blocked protesters from accessing JKIA, which they had aimed to shut down.
