Airport staff to go on indefinite strike from Feb 26

New Delhi: Agitated over the "failure" of the government to fulfil its 19-point charter of demands, the Airport Authority Employees' Union has called a nationwide indefinite strike from February 26.
"No action has been taken by the government since our token strike on February 12 with respect to our demands. So we have decided to undertake a countrywide massive industrial action during which all the non-executives will remain off the job from February 26," AAEU General Secretary M K Ghoshal said.
He said despite several meetings and assurances, nothing has been done about their demands such as issues related to the Airport Authority of India employees at Delhi and Mumbai airports, arbitrary decisions of closing of airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore and non-holding of tripartite committee meeting in this regard. The union has sent a letter to AAI Chairman K Ramalingam, reiterating its demands and informing about the employees' decision to go on strike.
21/02/08 PTI/Sify

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