Airline staff threaten to go on hunger strike over bonus pay

Workers at the Airport Authority of India (AAI) have announced their intention to go on a hunger strike if their bonuses are not paid to them.

The decision was revealed in a letter written by the Airport Authority Employees Union (AAEU). The letter outlines four issues that have caused grievance; bonus profit sharing with the employees, defined Superannuation Pensions, employment assistance and the release of an increment to employees who completed 15 years of service on revision of new pay scales.

The letter said: “With constraint, it is to bring to your kind notice that AAEU has been working with [a] constructive approach to promote [the] overall growth of the AAI. Now, the Union [is] forced to start agitation against the careless attitude of the management of the authority towards the long important issues from 4^th April 2016 with lunch hour demonstration and [a] 72 hour hunger strike from 11^th April 2016 followed by 19^th April 2016.”

In the UK, the second reading of the ‘the biggest crackdown on trade union rights in 30 years’, passed last year.