The Air India employees, who had proposed to go on strike on Tuesday, have decided to defer it following an intervention by the Labour Commissioner.
NEW DELHI: The Air India employees, who had proposed to go on strike on Tuesday, have decided to defer it following an intervention by the Labour Commissioner here.
"We have decided to defer our strike as the Labour Commissioner has intervened. The next conciliatory meeting has been scheduled for April four by when we have to submit our demands to the Chief Labour Commissioner," General Secretary of the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) J B Kadiyan said after the conciliation proceedings.
The strike call -- declared illegal by the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL) which runs Air India -- was given by the Joint Action Committee of eight unions, including ACEU and the Indian Commercial Pilots Association.
The unions, covering almost all sections of staff, were protesting on the "non-implementation" of various demands including agreements relating to wages and cadre policy.
After declaring the strike illegal, the NACIL and the Civil Aviation Ministry had last week decided to "take serious view" if the employees went ahead with their threat.
Annoyed over "non-implementation" of assurances on their demands, the major unions of Air India had decided to go on strike, claiming that the sale of the state-owned company was "imminent" in the present scenario.
In a notice to airline CMD V Thulasidas, the unions had said steps were being taken "to systematically sabotage" Air India. They had also claimed that "poor planning, non- implementation, poor decisions and execution at the highest level have led the company to losses in the last six months".
They had also blamed the government's "irrational" aviation policy for "encouraging" the private sector and reducing the importance of the national carrier.
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