{"id":299620,"date":"2019-11-06T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299620"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:54:36","slug":"air-india-privatisation-pilots-union-opposes-move-may-resort-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-privatisation-pilots-union-opposes-move-may-resort-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India privatisation: Pilots&#8217; union opposes move, may resort to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposing privatisation of Air India, an airline pilots&#8217; union has threatened to go on strike unless their long pending demands related to salaries are addressed, according to a communication. <\/p>\n<p>The nearly 800-member strong Indian Commercial Pilots&#8217; Association (ICPA), whose members fly narrow-body planes, has decided to work towards bringing all the unions at the airline under a common platform to oppose privatisation of the airline. <\/p>\n<p>The government is working on the final contours of disinvestment of loss-making Air India, which has a debt worth over Rs 58,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been unanimously decided to strongly oppose privatisation of the national carrier Air India by all means, including Industrial Action, if required,&#8221; as per minutes of an emergency meeting of the ICPA held on November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposing privatisation of Air India, an airline pilots&#8217; union has threatened to go on strike unless their long pending demands related to salaries are addressed, according to a communication. The nearly 800-member strong Indian Commercial Pilots&#8217; Association (ICPA), whose members fly narrow-body planes, has decided to work towards bringing all the unions at the airline under a common platform to oppose privatisation of the airline. The government is working on the final contours of disinvestment of loss-making Air India, which has a debt worth over Rs 58,000 crore. &#8220;It has been unanimously decided to strongly oppose privatisation of the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}