Air India employees go on two-hour strike

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Talks between executive pilots on strike and Air India Management is now on here today to resolve the deadlock and to discuss about their demands to reduce their productivity-linked incentives (PLI) by 50 per cent. Air India has cancelled its two flights due to an agitation called by a section of the national airlines' pilots.

August 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of India's flagship carrier Air India are on a three-day hunger strike from today over delay in payment of their salaries. "Over 20,000 members of the Aviation Industry Employees Guild (AIEG) and the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) and some other unions from across the nation have decided to go on hunger strike from today, as the management is rigid over payment of our salaries," said J B Kadian, general secretary, ACEU.

August 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI / KOLKATA - Bank employees in the national capital took to streets on Thursday following the nationwide strike, which was announced after talks between the United Forum of Bank Union's (UFBU) and the Indian Bank Association (IBA) had failed on Tuesday. About one million employees of country's dominating public sector banks along with some private and foreign banks staff are on a two-day strike demanding the government to increase their wages by 17 per cent, as agreed to between bank unions and IBA earlier.

July 4th, 2009 CHENNAI - A nationwide strike planned by employees of State Bank of India (SBI) and its six associate banks for July 6 against the merger of State Bank of Indore with SBI has been deferred, a union leader said Saturday. "The bank management has been advised by the deputy chief labour commissioner to discuss the issue with unions before pursuing the merger issue with the Reserve Bank of India and the central government," said C.H.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Air India employees will go on two hour-long strike on Friday between 1300 hrs IST to 1500 hrs IST. The employees are alleging that the management has failed to keep its promise to pay salaries to all lower grade employees by July 3.Nearly 20,000 employees throughout the country are expected to walk out for two hours.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Air India chairman and managing director Arvind Jadhav has asked employees, who went on a two-hour strike Friday, to be prepared for harsh decisions necessary to deal with the financial crisis the carrier faces. "Considering the critical financial state of the airline, we should all be prepared to face the impact of harsh decisions that will be required to be taken in the coming weeks to meet the current difficult financial situation," Jadhav said in a communication.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country Friday 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.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Air India management Thursday backtracked on its commitment to the employees' union to pay staff salaries by July 3, pushing employees to threaten again that they would go on strike from Friday. Yielding to pressure from its employees, the cash-strapped national carrier had June 29 said it would pay the June salaries July 3, instead of July 15 as had been decided earlier.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of Air India will go on an indefinite strike from July 1 if the management delays their salaries next month, a workers' union leader said Tuesday. We have decided to go on an indefinite strike from July 1 if the Air India management refuses to pay our salaries on time.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of flag carrier Air India Monday threatened to go on strike if the management delays their salaries next month. National Aviation Co of India Ltd (NACIL), which owns Air India, had Saturday said it would pay the June salaries of its around 31,000 employees two weeks into July due to a cash crunch.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A planned nationwide two-day strike by 15,000 airport employees from Thursday midnight has been called off after the government agreed to discuss their grievances, a civil aviation ministry spokesperson said. 'The strike, called by the employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), has been called off,' the official said.

January 7th, 2009 PATNA - An indefinite strike by more than 300,000 government employees in Bihar, which entered its second day Thursday, is likely to go on as the state government has taken a tough stand and decided not to concede their demands. The employees went on indefinite strike Wednesday, demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in 'letter and spirit' after failure of talks with Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who also holds the finance portfolio.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Oil sector strike seems set to go ahead from Wednesday, with both the government and employees of the public sector oil companies staying adamant on their respective positions. The Oil Sectors Officers Association (OSOA), representing around 45,000 public sector employees in 14 organisations, called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday demanding higher wages.

December 22nd, 2008 AGARTALA - Over 1,700 insurance employees in the northeast went on strike Tuesday as part of a nationwide protest against the government's move to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector. More than 1,700 insurance employees belonging to 22 branches of Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) and the General Insurance Corp (GIC) in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Assam took part in the strike, said Dipankar Chakraborty, a spokesman of the All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA).

December 22nd, 2008 KOLKATA - Around 99 percent of Kolkata-based National Insurance Corp and 76 percent of General Insurance Corp non-management staff stayed away from work Tuesday in support of a nationwide insurance sector strike. Employees unions claimed 98 percent of Life Insurance Corp's non-management staff in the eastern region also participated in the strike.