Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Air India employees protest against airline's privatisation

Mumbai: A group of Air India employees today held a lunch-hour meeting at the airline's Kalina office to protest against the sale of the carrier to private players.

During the half-an-hour protest meet, the union - Joint forum for Air India unions-guild-associations against privatisation - functionaries made the staffers aware of the "perils" of privatisation and its consequential impact on the employees jobs, one of the member of the forum said.

This was the first action by the Air India forum against government's privatsation move following the civil aviation ministry seeking expression of interest (EoI) from potential bidders for a 76 per cent stake sale in the loss-making carrier as well as divestment of two of its subsidiaries.

"Nine trade unions participated in our protest meeting during the lunch hour. The privatisation is in no way going to safeguard the employees interest. And for this reason we are totally opposed to it," the member said.

"With such meetings, the various unions are trying to create an awareness among the employees about the impending job losses," he added.
10/04/18 PTI/Economic Times
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