The strike threat by a major chunk of Air India’s over 28,000 employees from Monday was called off on Friday with the ailing national carrier promising to clear all their salary and other dues by June.
“We received their (strike) notice today. We have given them a payment schedule under, which we will clear all the dues by June. The strike has been called off,” Air India CMD Rohit Nandan told reporters after a meeting with union representatives.
The notice for ‘no pay, no work’ agitation had been given by eight major unions of the airline, representing pilots, engineers and cabin crew among others, to protest the delay in payment of their salaries, productivity-linked incentive (PLI) and other allowances by over three months.
The union leaders and the management had held a marathon day-long meeting on Thursday, which had failed to yield any result. Both sides had decided to meet again on Friday.
The unions had earlier sought the Prime Minister’s intervention to resolve the crisis, failing which they had threatened to go on agitation from April 2.
Keywords: Air India, Labour Ministry
Air India is not at all bad. I am regular traveller of Air India by 'Abu dhabi to Mumbai' flight & do not have any complaints about their services. After all its our country's service, hence we should encourage them for their efforts of struggling in today's competative environment.
Air India is one of the most hopeless cases in the country. After doing plenty of research and at the advice of my agent who swore that Air India was trying to clean its act up, I decided to give Air India another chance again by choosing to travel in its Executive Class from US to India last September. But it was such a terrible experience. In the air and on the ground. Such indifference. Will never travel by Air India again. But to be fair, the local Delhi to Chennai trip was a good experience. But the international leg was pathetic for the great deal of money I paid for my family's tickets. My 3 year old had less than a dozen cartoons to see (including those in Hindi) in 16 hour non stop flight.
I wish they had continued with the srike , Air India would make less losses with it ,and saved exchequer the hard earned tax payer s money, just like Haldia fertilizer where they are paid their salaries but the plant is as good as non operational
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