Left union picks holes in Jet-pilot pact

New Delhi: More than a week after the Jet Airways pilots strike ended, the agreement between the management and the pilots has fallen under the trade unions’ scanner. The CPM’s trade union wing, CITU, has sought the government’s intervention to ask the airline to withdraw a clause in the memorandum, which implied that the National Aviators’ Guild (NAG) should not pursue any efforts at union registration.
In a letter to labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge, CPM politburo member and CITU leader, MK Pandhe, said there was a “disturbing feature” in the agreement which was likely to have serious implications in future in the implementation of the Trade Union Act and the role of registrar of unions.
“The Act does not give any right to the management to advise the workmen, pilots in this case, regarding the proceedings of registration or de-registration of their union, unless the registrar’s prerogative has become management wish. Such an impression of collusion, you will agree, should be dispelled immediately in the overall interest of independent role of registrar of trade unions in implementing the Act,” he said in the letter.
The pact on September 12, when the strike ended, said the “NAG would agree that in the proceedings initiated by the registrar vide his show-cause notice dated August 6, the registrar should review his order dated July 24 and with this the proceedings initiated vide the aforesaid show-cause notice would stand concluded and the NAG will not pursue this afresh.
22/09/09 Economic Times

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