Indian Strike: Labour ministry will arbitrate arrears issue

New Delhi: After hours of negotiations, the top management of state-owned carrier Indian Airlines Ltd and its largest workers’ union, which is threatening a “mass leave” on Friday to protest pending arrears, decided to meet labour ministry officials to sort out their differences.
Air Corporations Employees Union (ACEU), which has a following of nearly 14,000 employees at Indian as the New Delhi-headquartered airline is branded, has called for a two-and-a-half hour walkout—between 9am and 11.30am—on Thursday before going on casual leave en masse the following day.

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Flights delayed
Mumbai: Indian flights out of Mumbai
and Delhi have been delayed on
Thursday as a result of a token
two-hour strike by around 14,000
employees all over India in protest
against non-revision of their pay
structure since 1997. The striking
employees include ground staff, counter
staff and other support employees.
The airlines' flights have not been
affected yet but senior officers have had
to step in to man the counters at
Mumbai and New Delhi.
17/05/07 NDTV.com
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“At this point, the agitation cannot be taken back,” J.B. Kadian, convenor of the joint action committee that represents eight worker groups at Indian, said late on Wednesday after a final meeting with Vishwapati Trivedi, chairman and managing director of the airline. The ACEU representatives and top management at Indian are to meet chief labour commissioner S.K. Mukhopadhyay at 11am.
Friday’s leave could be a precursor to a longer strike, ACEU officebearers said earlier, marking the first such industrial action at the airline in 12 years.
17/05/07 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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