Wage delay: AI employees lay blame at management’s door

Mumbai: After being informed of deferment of their salaries by 15 days for the month of June, Air India’s employees have lashed out at the carrier’s management and said that it was the company’s management which was responsible for the current state of affairs and not its employees. “Why should we suffer for what the management does? We do not have any contribution in the losses of the company and unions are unable to figure out what to do,” said Capt RC Ottal, general secretary, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA).
After the airline’s decision to defer salary, employees owing allegiance to various trade unions have come together in objection to the decision. “The associations of pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers and officers of Nacil, erstwhile Air India and Indian, have come together to form a common body called the ‘Joint Action Committee’ of Nacil Trade Unions’ (JAC) and its main objective is to help the authorities to turn around the company and restore its lost glory,” said a statement from ICPA.
“We are dismayed that the employees of Air India had to learn of the delay in payment of salary, PLI and allowances to employees through reports on Sunday… and are deeply distressed that the management has embarked on such a serious move in gross violation of the Industrial Disputes Act and in breach of all agreements, settlements and that too without discussing this drastic step with the unions,” said a statement from the Federation of Nacil Employees (FONE). According to FONE, it represents 10,000 odd employees from erstwhile Air India and Indian and is affiliated to the Shiv Sena.
16/06/09 Shashank Shekhar/Indian Express

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Categories: NACIL Jun 2009