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Aviation workers in Kenya have ended a strike that paralysed the country's main international airport for two days, the civil aviation authority said Tuesday.
The go-slow protest left thousands of passengers stranded in Nairobi and at other airports across the East African country on Sunday and Monday.
It was the latest in a run of strikes and threatened shutdowns by aviation unions pressing for a new collective bargaining agreement and an end to the use of volunteer staff.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement that a deal had been reached to advance talks on the bargaining agreement and on the "non-victimization of employees arising from the industrial action."
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi is a major regional hub and central to Kenya's tourism industry.
Transport Minister Davis Chirchir said the government had brokered an agreement between the key parties, but added that "the quantified loss to the economy... has been huge".
Moss Ndiema, secretary general of the Kenya Aviation Workers Union, told reporters the union was “effectively calling off our strike action” and would start “normalising” operations.
National carrier Kenya Airways said it was working to restore its schedule, but warned that delays would persist until Wednesday.
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