Air India staff threaten strike on March 18

New Delhi: Annoyed over "non-implementation" of assurances on their demands, all major unions of Air India, including those of the pilots, have threatened a day-long strike on March 18, saying sale of the state-owned company was "imminent" in the present scenario.
In a notice to the national carrier's CMD V Thulasidas, eight unions representing almost the entire range of employees said they would go on work-to-rule and hold gate meetings from Friday, walkout for two hours on March 12 as a build-up to the strike.
The notice said several major domestic and international routes were "either being curtailed or withdrawn".
This amounted to "a systematic sabotage of the national carrier", the unions said, adding "poor planning, non-implementation, poor decisions and execution at the highest level have led the company to losses in the last six months."
They also blamed the government's "irrational" aviation policy for "encouraging" the private sector and reducing the importance of the national carrier.
05/03/08 PTI/The Hindu

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