Air India staff threaten strike from Mar 4 over JV

New Delhi: Angered by the government's approval of an Air India proposal to set up joint ventures with a Singaporean firm for ground handling, employees of national carrier have threatened a long-drawn nationwide agitation to protest the move, starting March 4.
In a letter to Air India CMD Raghu Menon, the Civil Aviation Joint Action Forum (CAJAF), an umbrella body of Air India employees, warned of agitation on the issue, including a strike, saying the management had "violated" commitments given to the forum that it would be consulted on the issue of setting up of JV companies.
The agitation would begin with the employees staging a protest walkout from work on March four from 1000 hours to noon across the country, CAJAF spokesman V J Deka said here.
In their letter to the CMD, CAJAF leaders J B Kadian and George Abraham said the AI management had in December assured the employees that they would be consulted in the process, but regretted that no meeting had taken place in the past two months.
25/02/09 PTI/Economic Times

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