Air India pilots threaten to go on strike
A section of Air India pilots threatened to go on strike in protest against the up to 50% reduction in their productivity-linked incentives. Air India headhunts for a COO
By PTI |
MUMBAI: A section of Air India Executive pilots tonight threatened to go on an agitation in protest against the up to 50 per cent reduction in their productivity-linked incentives (PLIs) just days after Jet Airways pilots resumed work after going on a strike.
"The Executive pilots have taken a decision to go on strike because nobody is in state on mind to work due to the salary cuts. Starting now, we will not work," representative of Executive pilots Captain Bhalla said here amid reports that an unspecified number of Executive pilots may take mass leave.
But Air India spokesperson Jitendra Bhargava said, "We have no intimation of any strike by the pilots." It was not immediately known to what extent the airline's operations will be affected if the pilots go ahead with the stir. There are around 300 Executive pilots in the national carrier and since they are part of the airlines management, they cannot form a union and also cannot go on strike, official sources said.
Citing the massive cut in their PLI as the reason for the strike, Bhalla said, "With a stroke of a pen, the CMD Arvind Jadhav has cut 70 per cent salary of all the Executive pilots with 50 per cent being evident and 20 per cent hidden." "He is trying to hire foreign pilots at the rate of USD 13,500 and wants us to work us for peanuts," he alleged.
Bhalla alleged that the Chairman had not discussed the salary cuts with Executive pilots.
"The Executive pilots have taken a decision to go on strike because nobody is in state on mind to work due to the salary cuts. Starting now, we will not work," representative of Executive pilots Captain Bhalla said here amid reports that an unspecified number of Executive pilots may take mass leave.
But Air India spokesperson Jitendra Bhargava said, "We have no intimation of any strike by the pilots." It was not immediately known to what extent the airline's operations will be affected if the pilots go ahead with the stir. There are around 300 Executive pilots in the national carrier and since they are part of the airlines management, they cannot form a union and also cannot go on strike, official sources said.
Citing the massive cut in their PLI as the reason for the strike, Bhalla said, "With a stroke of a pen, the CMD Arvind Jadhav has cut 70 per cent salary of all the Executive pilots with 50 per cent being evident and 20 per cent hidden." "He is trying to hire foreign pilots at the rate of USD 13,500 and wants us to work us for peanuts," he alleged.
Bhalla alleged that the Chairman had not discussed the salary cuts with Executive pilots.
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