Air India CMD trying to provoke pilots' strike: ICPA

New Delhi: A major pilots' association has charged Air India chief Arvind Jadhav with trying to provoke a strike and on that pretext declare a lockout which could make several wage agreements lapse.
Responding to an interview of Jadhav and a report on the national carrier in a leading journal, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) quoted the airline CMD as saying that the turnaround strategy was like a "chess game" and that a lockout would have "broken the back of the unions had it lasted 15 days" and all existing wage agreements would have lapsed.
In a letter to the CMD, ICPA President Capt Shailendra Singh asked, "... does this mean that you have planned to create conditions for strike and that it should continue for 15 days?"
He alleged that the five-day stir by senior pilots in September "seems to be a clear example of the above where conditions were created by you to push the agitation every hour causing a loss of Rs 100 crore".
15/11/09 PTI/Times of India

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