Workers at Indian headed for a strike

The largest workers union at Indian Airlines Ltd looked set to go on strike from Wednesday after talks between it and the state-owned carrier’s management broke down over non-payment of pending salary arrears for nearly 10 years, estimated at Rs450 crore, potentially raising a big hurdle before the company’s ongoing merger with Air India.
Air Corporations Employees Union, or ACEU, which has about 14,000 of Indian’s 18,000-strong workforce, said it will gear up for ‘direct action’ or boycott work from Tuesday.
“We have informed them (the Indian top management) that there is no point in holding talks any more. This can’t go on forever,” J.K. Badola, general secretary of ACEU, said after a meeting between union representatives and top managers of Indian, including Vishwapati Trivedi, the airline’s chairman and managing director. Unions at Indian have been demanding wage revision, a clear path of promotions and payment of arrears before the two state-owned airlines merge.
15/05/07 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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