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Air India employees stage wage protest
No flight disruption as staff members demonstrate for two hours against delay in payment of June salaries.
- IANS
- Published: 23:26 July 3, 2009
New Delhi: Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country yesterday to protest the delay in salary payments, but it failed to move the airline management.
"No flights were affected while our employees were on strike," said Air India executive director for corporate communications Jitender Bhargava.
Maintaining that there was no need for any discussion with employees on the issue, Bhargava told journalists: "We will look into their demand."
Earlier in the day, the airline management had warned its employees not to go on strike and threatened to cut salaries if they did so. The Air India management also threatened to take action against striking employees.
Airline employees went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country from 1pm yesterday to protest the delay in payment of their June salaries. They have also said they could resort to similar agitation later till they got their salaries.
Airline employees in the national capital demonstrated at the domestic terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport and stayed away from work for two hours.
"We have not decided our future course of action. We are waiting for a response from our management," said Anand Prakash, the joint secretary of Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU), the largest union of Air India employees.
Under the management's proposal, the first tranche of payments will go to lower grade employees within two days, while the others will be paid on July 15.
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