A section of ground staff and engineers of Air India have threatened to go on strike from November 2 over a government decision which requires them to vacate office quarters in six months after the sale of airline.
A joint action committee of Air India unions served a strike notice to the airline management and the regional labour commissioner today. The agitating unions include Air Corporation Employees Union, Aviation Industry Employees Guild and All India Service Engineers Association.
The unions said employees have been asked to give an undertaking by October 15 that they would vacate the staff quarters.
The decision to ask employees to vacate homes while in service amounts to unilateral change of service condition and is violation of labour law, they said.
