Mumbai: The NITI Aayog’s proposal to sell off the sick PSUs including Air- India (A-I) has rallied all the central trade unions, who have threatened to go on strike against the proposal.
The unions including the RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh said they would seek the intevention of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “BMS opposes NITI Aayog’s proposal to close sick PSUs... BMS demands that the government call a meeting of all stakeholders to discuss the revival plan of sick PSUs before proceeding to decide on the proposal of NITI Aayog. Otherwise, we will be compelled to come on to the street to oppose the move,” BMS general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay said in a statement.
An official of the All-India Service Engineers Association of Air India said they would be calling a meeting of all unions to decide on further action. He said that the government should go into the wrong decisions taken by the higher ups in the Air India management that have led to losses. He pointed out to the decision to set up the maintenance, repair and overhaul unit in Nagpur. The hangars are lying empty as no airline wants to go to Nagpur.
The government should take the Unions into confidence before taking any decisions he said. Meanwhile Mr Vishwas Utagi, convenor of Trade Union Action Committee of Maharashtra said the All India Bank Employees Federation will be meeting in Chennai on Thursday to decide on action against government’s decision on Wednesday to merge the State Bank of India’s associate banks with SBI.
