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Why aviation sector strike wasn’t inevitable
Stranded travellers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on August 31, 2026 as flight operations were disrupted when Kenya Aviation Workers Union members went on strike over the failure by the Government to honour the terms of their memorandum
For two days, Kenya's aviation sector was paralysed as staff downed tools in a strike that grounded flights and stranded thousands of passengers.
Yet this disruption was not inevitable. It was the predictable outcome of a long-simmering collapse in relations between the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) management and the Kenya Aviation Workers Union (Kawu).
