New Delhi: Ending 26 days of impasse, employees of the Kingfisher Airlines ended their strike on Thursday after the management accepted their demand of paying four months salary before the year-end.
The management also said the airline would be fully operational within a month and they would soon present their turn-around plan to the director general of civil aviationfor revoking suspension of their licence.
The breakthrough was achieved during a meeting between the airlines’ chief executive officer Sanjay Aggarwal and the striking employees in Delhi. “We have reached an agreement with the management on the salary issue. We will return to work back immediately,” Satish Chandra Mishra, an aircraft service engineer who has been leading the agitation, said.
“We will receive our first salary for March today (Thursday), followed by April’s salary on October 31 and then May’s pay by Diwali. Our fourth month’s pay (June) will be given by the year end sometime in December,” Mishra said.
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The management also said the airline would be fully operational within a month and they would soon present their turn-around plan to the director general of civil aviationfor revoking suspension of their licence.
The breakthrough was achieved during a meeting between the airlines’ chief executive officer Sanjay Aggarwal and the striking employees in Delhi. “We have reached an agreement with the management on the salary issue. We will return to work back immediately,” Satish Chandra Mishra, an aircraft service engineer who has been leading the agitation, said.
“We will receive our first salary for March today (Thursday), followed by April’s salary on October 31 and then May’s pay by Diwali. Our fourth month’s pay (June) will be given by the year end sometime in December,” Mishra said.
26/10/12 Daily News & Analysis
