How Yechury broke the Indian deadlock

New Delhi: CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury quietly managed to break the three-day strike by the employees of Indian. Sources said Yechury spoke to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh directly.
The Air Corporation Employees Union, the biggest of the seven striking unions spearheading the strike, is an affiliate of the CITU.
Sources said the prime minister directly spoke to Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, who had earlier taken a tough stand against the striking employees and sacked some of the leaders.
Yechury, the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on surface transport, reportedly conveyed to the prime minister that the workers were feeling betrayed by the civil aviation management for backtracking from an agreement on wage revision and promotion.
The CPI(M) leaders, sources said, were eager to end the strike due to adverse public opinion.
The CITU leaders said within an hour of the Left leader's meeting the prime minister, the civil aviation authorities sent the chief central labour commissioner to meet the striking workers at Chennai. The deal was clinched within two hours.
15/06/07 Aasha Khosa/Business Standard

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