Striking Air India pilots seek PM's intervention

New Delhi: The deadlock over the 49-day-old strike by over 400 Air India pilots persisted today with the Government asserting that they have to return to work "unconditionally" and the pilots seeking Prime Minister's intervention to end the crisis.
"We want them to come back. All they have to do is to come back unconditionally to work. They never gave a notice (of a strike). High Court said it is illegal. I don't even know what the issues are. They don't know themselves. What can we do?" Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told reporters here.
The pilots, who went on a 48-hour hunger strike at Jantar Mantar here, alleged that the minister was speaking in one voice and the airline management in another.
"There is a clear disconnect between the two," Tauseef Mukadam, joint secretary of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), which is spearheading the agitation, said.
25/06/12 PTI/Economic Times

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