Air India toughens stance, sacks 30 pilots

Mumbai: The Air India management has taken a tough stance against the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), whose members have been on a strike for 14 days and has sacked 30 more pilots, taking the number of dismissed pilots to 101.
The move came on a day when civil aviation minister Ajit Singh met representatives of Air India employees’ unions and urged them to convince the IPG to call off the strike. IPG was not invited for the talks.
The IPG-led strike began a fortnight ago to protest against the management’s decision to depute pilots from erstwhile Indian Airlines on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The union has about 450 members. The airline management also claimed there were cracks in the union, as four pilots had resumed flying. However, the union dismissed the claim and said those resuming duty were not its members. Stalemate continued as negotiations are yet to begin between the two sides.
“The sacking of pilots will only strengthen the union instead of weakening it,’’ an IPG member said.
22/05/12 Business Standard

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