Make no mistake! KQ workers want to work...these strikes are *WELL CALCULATED MANIPULATIONS* by unions to remain relevant-PERIOD. But the unions need to know that KQ is public company and also carries our national flag and disruptions hurt many sectors in our economy. With every such strike, competitors grab a piece of KQ.

I admire what KQ is doing though i aint a shareholder and i am not planning to be. I fly Emirates & Ethiopia to most of my destinations after British airways calculated move to inconvenience travelers on Christmas season last year. KQ also seems bend to take the same route lakini shindwe!!! I say this because unlike in the west where you get a fraction (ussually 50-80%) of your last pay from Labour or Employment ministries plus child allowances such things are non existent in Kenya and they wont until maybe 2030. You lose your job and you back to the drawing board.

For the sake of defeating this shenanigans let hundreds or even thousands of East-Africans (Men & women) who would rather be working for Kenya Airways make applications by sending their CVs to <careers@flamingo-air.com> by Oct 22, 2010.

here is the advert http://www.4shared.com/d...ne_would_you_rather.html

[quote=BGL]
Make no mistake! KQ workers want to work...these strikes are *WELL CALCULATED MANIPULATIONS* by unions to remain relevant-PERIOD. But the unions need to know that KQ is public company and also carries our national flag and disruptions hurt many sectors in our economy. With every such strike, competitors grab a piece of KQ.

I admire what KQ is doing though i aint a shareholder and i am not planning to be. I fly Emirates & Ethiopia to most of my destinations after British airways calculated move to inconvenience travelers on Christmas season last year. KQ also seems bend to take the same route lakini shindwe!!! I say this because unlike in the west where you get a fraction (ussually 50-80%) of your last pay from Labour or Employment ministries plus child allowances such things are non existent in Kenya and they wont until maybe 2030. You lose your job and you back to the drawing board.

For the sake of defeating this shenanigans let hundreds or even thousands of East-Africans (Men & women) who would rather be working for Kenya Airways make applications by sending their CVs to <careers@flamingo-air.com> by Oct 22, 2010.

here is the advert http://www.4shared.com/d...e_would_you_rather.html[/quote]

Damn straight! If KQ staff keep this up... folks will NOT fly KQ... & the airline will stall... and jobs will be lost...

Shows that KQ is fed up of the BS. I like the hard-line stance...

Wachana na trade unionism ile ya zamani! Sack for good those who go on strike and it will teach others a lesson. I also repeat that most workers want to work; this strike is the latest manipulation by trade unions to remain relevant.

Hata Kibaki anajua hivyo.

Its a pity how Kenyan trade unions operate. The leaders are less objective and always see strikes as the only solutions. I have seen union leaders destroy a firm in the name of salary arrears only for the firm to go down and poor workers loose their jobs as the union officials continue their activism!As long as a firm is not breaching the CBA then there should be room for dialogue.

They were blasted by kibaki,he said a trade unionist of today must be thinking of building the economy and not destroying it,i wonder if they know how wahindi are paying poor kenyans a mere 4k... kq is a top payer,..what other mission do they have there?

Mlenyema, Erm u do know that these are professionals not "mbotches"?!?!? Seems u don't know the difference.

Update. They are pretty spilt on whether to go on strike or not. The older ones don't want to go on strike the younger ones do. I doubt it will happen, too many divisions in the union. A bunch of factions where one says go strike, the other disowns and etc. So if it does happen, which I doubt, I doubt it will be as effective as the last one. This time the engineers are not involved in this as they have their own "gang". Pilots, obviously are not involved. (KALPA had a fallout with AAWU last year)

This is a bold and commendable move by KQ. It's time to stop this union arm twisting BS. Anyway, that said, I hope unlike Segman, Titus knows what he's doing. This stand-off has potential of turning out worse than Kenol Kobil if managed with arrogance.

I'm putting in two orders @35/- and 38/-

I'm not hating on Segman but if you look at the KK case it was a lose lose situation. Long blame statements in their website every other day which finally added up to nothing for me the shareholder. All I'm saying is it was a waste of time and I think KK is the loser in whatever agreement they have in place now.

After the recent NAS fiasco, I do not think the management is taking any risk. The mob psychology has taken over reason in workers heads. My take is KQ management can decide to pay off the troublemakers and the incompetents keep them out of their business forever. Anyway, it will be interesting to watch what happens.

Not a good idea... Paying off the incompetents simply gives the 'good' workers a chance to strike later on!!! I would be pissed if the incompetent are rewarded both as a shareholder and/or employee!