AI chief seeks cooperation of unions through SMS

Mumbai: The chief of the beleaguered Air India, Arvind Jadhav, has solicited the support of the unions to wriggle out of the crisis through an SMS and asked them to tell the media that the employees would put in their best.
"U (you) will have to communicate with media and your members that the employees are prepared to give their best and also doing their level best. I hope I have your cooperation," Jadhav told the union leaders through a mobile text message.
"Tough times are ahead, though we have been able to improve our revenues and hold on to the costs, the rising interest burden, the repayment on aircraft and the rising fuel bill are putting a lot of strain on the company's finances," Jadhav said.
"We have also the challenges of integration, modernisation (and) facing competition. What is now required by us is face the challenges united(ly)," he said in the SMS.
Union leaders, who requested anonymity, said "strangely enough, it was Jadhav himself who had issued a gag order in May this year warning the employees not to air their grievances in public or face action. Now he is requesting the unions to put across his point to the media".
25/11/10 PTI/Deccan Herald

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