AI pilots to wait till Nov 24 on strike move

New Delhi: The threat of strike by Air India pilots continued to hang like a sword over the management even though it agreed to pay pilots their performance linked incentive and flying allowances by Tuesday.
However, with the payment of the present month’s salary being deferred and not all other demands being met immediately, pilots said they would wait till November 24 to decide their next move. In a meeting with the chief labour commissioner in the capital on Monday, the pilot body also demanded a probe into mismanagement of the airline, especially during the merger of AI and IA, by senior officials.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) had written to the management on November 2, stating their demands and threatening that if all of those were not met by November 10, then the letter would be treated as a two-week notice of strike and pilots would suspend work on November 24. However, it having become evident that the management would not be giving into all the demands, atleast immediately, pilots said that they had time till then to consider their next course of action.
10/11/09 Times of India

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