Kenya Airways Fires 140 Engineers and Technicians over Strike

Kenya Airways recently fired approximately 140 engineers and technicians over what it called an “illegal strike”, an internal memo from the CEO to all staff showed.

“(The) management will not entertain actions that impede the recovery process of the company,” CEO Sebastian Mikosz, wrote in the memo.

He wrote the striking workers had ignored three written requests from the company to resume work since the strike started.

The technical assistants were demanding a 70 percent increase in basic pay while control and production engineers wanted a 250 percent pay hike, the airline said in a statement.