Mumbai: Over 18,000 employees of Airports Authority of India (AAI) have started a protest action plan against the Civil Aviation Ministry's move to hand over operation and management of six AAI-developed airports to the private sector, union leaders said today.
While the staffers have started wearing black badges since yesterday, leaders of Airports Authority Employees Union and other unions would soon meet to chalk out a long-drawn action plan which would include gate meetings, hunger strike and demonstrations, finally culminating in a nationwide strike, union leaders, requesting anonymity, said here.
The ministry is going ahead with handing over the operation, management and development of six AAI airports at Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati on a public-private partnership basis.
"This rabid privatisation would only benefit private parties and a few politicians in the country. They are handing over these airports, which have already been modernised and upgraded by the AAI by spending public money," they said.
11/09/13 PTI/Economic Times
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While the staffers have started wearing black badges since yesterday, leaders of Airports Authority Employees Union and other unions would soon meet to chalk out a long-drawn action plan which would include gate meetings, hunger strike and demonstrations, finally culminating in a nationwide strike, union leaders, requesting anonymity, said here.
The ministry is going ahead with handing over the operation, management and development of six AAI airports at Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati on a public-private partnership basis.
"This rabid privatisation would only benefit private parties and a few politicians in the country. They are handing over these airports, which have already been modernised and upgraded by the AAI by spending public money," they said.
11/09/13 PTI/Economic Times
