Unions representing Air India Ltd have slammed the national carrier’s cost-cutting plans, which include salary cuts and leave without pay (LWP) for a section of the workforce.
The unions, in separate letters to Air India chairman and MD Rajiv Bansal, said the decisions were taken unilaterally without consulting them.
Criticizing the plans to restructure wages, Air India’s pilots’ union, Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), said negotiations between the management and staff were “not harmonious” and would not be in the interest of the airline if carried out in an unilateral manner.
In a 20 July letter addressed to Bansal, ICPA said it supports the austerity measures but “only if such a restructuring is done in true spirit of Article 14 of the Indian Constitution”.
