Mumbai: While the three management pilots sacked by Air India for going on strike were reinstated on Wednesday afternoon, the other six pilots received their letters on Thursday.
The Air India pilots strike may be over but the hostility between the airline management and its pilots brought back some tense moments on Wednesday evening. As the airline chairman dilly-dallied in signing the order to reinstate the nine pilots who were sacked for going on strike, another agitation seemed to be in making. However by Wednesday 5 pm, both the parties called truce after the first of the reinstatement orders were signed. By Thursday afternoon, all the nine pilots received communication from the airline informing them that they have been taken back.
But that was not before the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the union of the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots, wrote to the civil aviation minister pressing again for the ouster of airline chairman Arvind Jadhav.
"Despite explicit agreement in writing that all the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots' terminations/suspensions would be revoked with immediate effect as soon as the strike was withdrawn, the management of Air India is yet to revoke the orders of all the nine pilots," said the ICPA letter sent to the ministry on Wednesday afternoon.
12/05/11 Manju Vayalar/Times of India
To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline
0 comments:
Post a Comment