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Eleven Years of Broken Promises: How Kenya’s Aviation Workers Finally Said Enough

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, East Africa’s busiest aviation hub, has descended into chaos, and the workers responsible for keeping planes in the air say they have been waiting eleven years for a fair deal. The Kenya Aviation Workers Union has had enough of signed agreements that collect dust and salary negotiations that go nowhere. This is the story of how patience ran out at 30,000 feet.