Air India holds talks with employees again

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.

September 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - At least three Air India flights were cancelled Saturday even as the airline management began talks with the agitating pilots here. The talks have begun early afternoon.

September 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Around 400 Air India pilots, who threatened to go on mass sick leave to protest the airline's decision to cut their incentives, Saturday rejected the management's offer for talks and said they will stick to their agitation plan. Senior executives as well as other pilots have decided not to take part in the negotiations with the management Sunday, a pilot said.

August 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Cash-strapped national carrier Air India Thursday decided to cut performance-linked incentives of its employees by 30 to 50 percent. The decision was taken at a meeting between the management and employees union leaders and the workers have accepted the cut, an airline official said.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of state-run banks have decided to go ahead with their proposed strike Thursday and Friday following failure of talks with the government over hike in wages and other demands. Our talks were inconclusive.

July 27th, 2009 CHENNAI - Discussion are on between the management and workers of Hyundai Motor India Limited, who went on strike Thursday, and company officials are hopeful of a amicable solution Monday. "Discussions are on between the management and the union and we hope an amicable solution is arrived by the end of the day," Hyundai's corporate communications head Rajiv Mitra told IANS.

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 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Yielding to pressure from its employees, cash-strapped national carrier Air India Monday decided to give them their June salary July 3, instead of July 15 it decided earlier. "The management has told us that we would get our salaries on July 3.

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.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than eight months after the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) granted waiver to New Delhi allowing the resumption of global nuclear commerce, India Monday held talks with an NSG troika comprising Germany, South Africa and Hungary. The Indian delegation, led by Vivek Katju, special secretary (Political and International Organizations), in the external affairs ministry, held talks with the NSG team led by representative of its current chair, Viktor Elbling of Germany.

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.

January 12th, 2009 PATNA - The indefinite strike by more than 300,000 government employees in Bihar, which entered its seventh day Tuesday, has badly affected the functioning of government departments across the state. Most of the government offices, particularly the treasury and registration departments, wore a deserted look as employees kept away.

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 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Talks between Petroleum Minister Murli Deora and representatives of the striking employees of public sector oil companies ended late Wednesday night without any positive result. The Oil Sector Officers Association (OSOA), an umbrella organisation representing nearly 45,000 public sector oil employees, called for the strike demanding pay hike.