Namibia Airports Company (NAC) workers call off strike

Namibia Airports Company (NAC) workers announced on 2 October 2008 that they have called off a strike, which they had threatened to undertake if the NAC administration did not address their demands. The Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) -- the union representing the workers -- and the NAC administration had been negotiating since the workers announced the strike on 29 September, and apparently came to an agreement to prevent the action, which would have begun on 3 October. The workers had threatened to "close all airports" if their demands for back pay and increased salary were not met. This would have been the second recent Namibian transportation sector strike; in September 2008, TransNamib -- Namibia's rail company -- embarked on a six-day strike, which cost the country millions of dollars in economic losses.