Air India employees warn of strike if salaries delayed

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Tuesday urged Air India pilots to give up their agitation and report back to work, and assured them that any decision regarding wage cuts would be taken after consulting them. "No formal decision regarding cut in productivity linked incentives (PLI) or others has been taken.

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.

July 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Cash-strapped state-run carrier Air India is reworking the employees' productivity-linked incentive (PLI) scheme as part of its restructuring plan. PLI accounts for almost half of the company's Rs.3,000 crore wage bill.

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 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 - Employees of national carrier Air India went on a two-hour strike at airports across the country from 1 p.m. in protest against the delay in salary payments despite a warning from the management that this would entail a pay cut.

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.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of India's flagship carrier Air India have announced they will be on strike for two hours on Friday in protest against the non-payment of salaries. Air India has said it will not be able to pay the salaries tomorrow as scheduled.

June 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani government has raised the salaries and pensions of its employees by 20 percent, a senior minister has said. The salary hike will be effective for employees in grades one to 16.

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 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - About 31,000 employees of flag carrier Air India will receive their June salaries only in mid-July as the national carrier attempts to overcome its losses, which were over Rs.4,000 crore (Rs.40 billion/$8.4 billion) during last fiscal, a top official said Sunday. The July salaries could be delayed by over two weeks, said a senior civil aviation ministry official.

February 28th, 2009 PATNA - More than 300,000 Bihar government employees who had struck work for 33 days will not receive their salaries for this period as the state government has taken a 'no work no pay' stance. 'The government is firm on not paying them salaries to ensure its policy of 'no work no pay',' an official of the state finance department said, adding that a letter to this effect had already been issued.

February 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday gave in to the striking employees' demand for higher salaries and said it will implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations. The decision follows talks in Jammu between a five-member team of cabinet members led by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and 30 representatives of the Joint Coordination Committee of employees.

February 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday accepted employees' demand for the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, ending a three-day strike in offices. The decision follows talks between a five-member team of cabinet ministers led by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and 30 members of the Joint Coordination Committee of employees in Jammu.