Air India exists for TUs to flourish, according to Left

New Delhi: With the Air India employees threatening to go on another strike within a fortnight, Left-backed trade unions have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to ‘restore normalcy’ in the public sector undertaking.
Alleging that civil aviation minister Praful Patel and Air India chairman Arvind Jadhav are “catering to interests of private players,” they threatened that the entire TU movement will unitedly back the airline unions’ fight against “suppression” of their rights.
While CPM polit bureau member and Citu leader M K Pandhe wrote a letter to the prime minister accusing the chairman of Air India of suppressing “well established and recognised unions,” CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta met Mr Singh and told him that derecognition of unions did not happen even during the Emergency. “I am informed that the employees of Air India will resort to one-day strike on June 12 to protest against the high-handed policy of the CMD. Due to large-scale victimisation, employees are agitated and desire that all victimisation measures should be withdrawn and recognition of the union should be restored,” Mr Pandhe said.
Putting the ball in the court of the government and airline management, he told the prime minister that the management of Air India will be solely responsible for the strike. “I hope you will view these developments with concern and intervene in the dispute so that normalcy is restored and Air India can march ahead despite unhealthy competition indulged in by private civil aviation companies... Please note that the trade union movement in the country will not be a silent spectator if suppression of trade union rights in such a blatant manner is allowed.”
01/06/10 Economic Times

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Categories: NACIL Jun 2010