AAI staff threaten strike on Feb 26

Mumbai: At least 18,000 employees of the Airports Authority Employees Union (AAEU), the only registered union of the airports authority staff, have threatened to go on a countrywide strike on Tuesday.
"If the government does not heed to our demands, then the strike will be indefinite," said MK Ghosal, general secretary, AAEU.
The union has sent notices to the civil aviation ministry, regional directors of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and to the secretary of civil aviation, according to Dilip Gurjar of the AAEU.
The strike would impact all the operations of the airlines. The union has threatened strike if its demand for continuing the employees' present permanent jobs with the state-run AAI is not heeded to and they have to join private airport operators like Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) and Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL).
The closure of the AAI airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore once the greenfield airports become operational in the cities next month is also an issue with the AAI employees.
23/02/08 Manisha Singhal/Business Standard

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