MUMBAI: Privatised carrier Air India is currently in the midst of its first labour-strife as about 1,700 aircraft maintenance technicians working with a government-owned engineering company that handles maintenance and repair jobs for the airline went on an indefinite ‘tools down agitation’ on Tuesday.
Their demands include salary revision, employment contract renewal, and inclusion of dearness allowance.
The stir began at 9am. By evening, a few AI flights from Delhi, including to Mumbai, Surat and Pune, were delayed because of the agitation, said a technician, requesting anonymity. However, an AI spokesperson said there was no effect of the stir and flights are operating normally.
