New Delhi: Days after Ratan Tata-owned Tata Sons took control of debt-ridden Air India, air carrier unions have sent a strike notice to Mumbai’s regional labor commissioner as employees were forced to vacate the company-provided accommodation in Kalina, Mumbai. was asked for.
According to reports, a section of Air India’s ground staff and engineers have threatened to go on strike from November 2 over the government’s decision to vacate their apartments within six months of the closing date of the disinvestment deal.
Air India employees received a letter from the airline on October 5, asking them to submit a signed compliance letter by October 20, stating that they would vacate their company-provided homes within six months of the airline’s privatization. Will do, said a report in The Times of India.
Air India employee unions have said that if employees are forced to vacate their homes, they will go on an indefinite strike from November 2.
The report also said that the employee unions have also written a letter in this regard to Air India General Manager (Industrial Relations) Meenakshi Kashyap on Wednesday.
“It is learned that the land on which the colonies are located has been permanently leased to AI by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). AAI is the owner and Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) is only a tenant. None of it The reason is not for AI to vacate the colonies soon and hand over the land to the Adani Group (which is now the promoter of MIAL),” TOI quoted the letter sent by the employee unions.
The unions have also stressed on the fact that there are many slums on the airport land which have not been given any such notice.
On 8 October, Tata Sons won a bid to acquire the state-run national carrier Air India, which has been in debt for more than half a century, after handing over control to the government.
The salt-to-software conglomerate made a winning bid of Rs 18,000 crore and regained 100 stake in the airline.
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