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Mumbai: According to a report, Air India (AI) pilots are likely to head towards another strike after a meeting held on Nov. 26 in the capital between airline pilots and management remained `inconclusive'.
Capt Ravindra Kumar, Regional Secretary, Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) said, "The talks remained 'inconclusive' as the management was adamant over our demands, they have even refused to pay our due salaries and allowances and said that we will have to accept the cut. With such an attitude of the airline management, strike seems imminent." Kumar added that, Arvind Jadhav, CMD, Air India himself had called us for the talks but was not present in the meeting.
The airline pilots have been demanding an inquiry into the alleged mismanagement of the airline, implementation of uniform rules for all the employees of erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India, as well as turnaround plan from the management without any cut in the salaries of any employees. On November 2, 2009 the ICPA had written a letter to Jadhav for payment of their salaries and incentives by November 10, 2009 failing which they will be forced to proceed on strike from November 24, 2009.
The first round of conciliation talks with the management on November 9, 2009 also remained `inconclusive'. But the pilots, during their second round of conciliation talks with the management on November 20, 2009 had deferred their strike call from November 24, 2009 by six days on the request of the Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC), as the airline officials had asked for more time. Air India had suffered a loss of Rs 65 crore during the five-day stir by senior pilots of Air India in September this year.
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