‘NCLT or strike’: Air India employees to decide on method to stall privatisation

Fed up with the uncertainty over their own future tagged with the fate of Air India, airline employees are in the process to deciding to either take the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) route to recover their dues or declare a general strike to put pressure on the govt from privatising the carrier. The two options were arrived after all the recognised AI unions and other employee bodies met in Mumbai. However, a final course of action will be decided after further discussion and is expected soon. If the strike option is chosen, then it will be initiated from Jan 8, 2020. The decision to consider either the NCLT route or the strike comes days after the airline’s pilots and engineers demanded immediate payment of their dues. <br/>