Mumbai: A section of Air India`s cabin-crew
on Wednesday deferred its proposed agitation on March 19 following an assurance by the management that its demands would be looked
into sympathetically.
"We have deferred our agitation from March 19 after the
management assured us that it will get back to us on our
demand of filling-up cabin-crew vacancies in the next 2-3
days," Air Corporation Employees Union`s (ACEU) Regional
Secretary Vivek Rao said here, after the meeting.
A section of the air-carrier`s cabin-crew owing allegiance
to ACEU had threatened not to report for work on March 19 in
protest of the management not filling up cabin-crew vacancies.
ACEU, the employees union of the erstwhile Indian
Airlines, had in a letter to the management on March 4, said
that it has directed over 800 of its non-executive cabin-crew
(affiliated to the union) not to report for work on March 19
to protest the shortage of cabin-crew in the national carrier.
ACEU had then said that despite several representations
to the management on the issue of staff shortage, there had
been no response from the management and hence, it had to
resort to this industrial action.
"We are facing a shortage of manpower on-board aircraft
but despite our repeated representations to the management to
fill-up vacancies, it has not paid any attention to the
issue," ACEU`s General Secretary Dinakar Shetty had said.
PTI
