According to a PTI report, Air India pilots, protesting the airline management’s move to cut their salaries and allowances, have deferred their strike threat from November 24, 2009 by six days (November 30, 2009), even as the conciliation talks remained inconclusive. After a recent meeting with the airline pilots and management, S K Mukhopadhyay, Chief, Labour Commissioner (CLC) appealed to the pilots to defer their strike call till the next round of negotiations on November 30, 2009 as the management sought more time to revert back on their demands, which include implementation of a turnaround plan without salary cut. This was their second round of talks before the CLC after the first meeting on November 9, 2009.
Captain Shailendra Singh, President, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) said, “The second round of talks was unproductive as the management did not come with solutions to our demands. They also asked for more time, and on the request of Chief Labour Commissioner, we have deferred our strike call till November 30, 2009.” Singh claimed that the talks failed as the management had come up with ‘ambiguous’ proposals on their demands. |