AITUC seeks Hardeep Singh Puri’s intervention to save jobs of 2,500 workers at Chennai Airport

The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Friday sought the intervention of Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to protect the jobs of 2,500 workers employed with ground and cargo handling agency BILL at Chennai Airport.

There are fears that the workers of Bhadra International India Ltd (BILL) at the airport may lose job after the ground and cargo handling work is given to some other contractor or firm.

“The Airports Authority of India (AAI) being their Principal Employer, I urge upon you to appropriately mandate absorption of all the workers in their respective scale of employment and wages by either the AAI CLAS (Cargo Logistics and Allied Services Company Ltd) or any other contractor who may be licensed to carry out the Cargo and ground handling services at Chennai Airport,” AITUC General Secretary Amarjeet Kaur said in a letter to the Minister on Friday.