Friday 20 May 2011
Friday 13 May 2011
Monday 9 May 2011
Letter Prepared by L Mony to be submitted to all GM's
To
THE CHAIRMAN
RAILWAY BOARD, RAIL BHAVAN,
NEW DELHI.
Respected Sir,
Sub: Expedite recruitment of Assistant Loco Pilots.
With most concern this union desire to bring the following issue for your immediate intervention.
To fill up the vacancies in Loco Running cadre 17,500 posts of Assistant Loco Pilots had been notified through various Railway Recruitment Boards in the year 2008. In the course of this process, due to question paper leak from some RRBs the entire process has been stalled. Though the process restarted still no step taken to recruit these 17,500 selected candidates.
From 2008 to till date, due to normal retirement alone another 3000 posts became vacant. Thus around 21,000 vacancies exist out of 58,000 posts of Loco Pilots. This creates undue stress not only to the management but also to Loco Running Staff. Trains are being held up, rescheduled or cancelled. Staffs are at the receiving end. Leave, medical leave, periodical rest, normal trip rest are denied due to acute shortage of staff. Staff have to perform duty beyond the normal limits for want of relief crew. In this situation, we respectfully submit that the recruitment of Assistant Loco Pilots be completed expeditiously.
The period of training for ALP is 6 months. It may please be noted, to give induction training to these recruits of around 17,500 at a given time is impossible under the present infrastructure. So all the training institute’s full capacity be utilized in a war footing , duly keeping in abeyance all other training to staff for a limited period, till all these 17,500 recruits are trained.
We hope that your good self will seriously intervene and a solution be arrived immediately.
Thanking you
yours faithfully
Ernakulam. L. MONY
07.05.11. Central President, AILRSA
Copy to,
1. Kumari MAMATA BANERJI, Hon’ble Minister for Railways.
2. The Chairman, Railway Board.
3. Member Staff, Railway Board.
4. Member Traffic, Railway Board.
5. All General Managers, Indian Railways.
6. Chief Operations Manager, Southern Railway.
Wednesday 4 May 2011
AIR INDIA PILOTS ON STRIKE!
In the argument about pay rises, Air India pilots on strike are faced with contempt notices. The Delhi Court issues the notes to nine pilots refusing to return to work yesterday, which marked the seventh day of the strike.
Justice BD Ahmed, head of the bench leading the court case, claimed that the groups bargaining powers were decreasing every minute. He tried to threaten pilots on strike by calling the contempt notice a stigma that will not enable them to find employment in the future.
Civil Aviation Minister, Vayalar Ravi refused talks with the pilots unless they reported to work. The Airline announced a ‘no work, no pay’ notice today concerning all pilots on strike. Still, strikers remain resistant.
As a result of the strike, Air India had to cancel over 90% of its domestic flights and transfer passengers to Alliance Air, their sister budget carrier. The airline is so severely hit that it considers bringing retired as well as sacked pilots back into employment. To continue crucial routes in the north-east or in between metros, Air India was forced to wet-lease aircrafts at high costs. Bookings for the airline closed five days back.
Around half of the airline’s 1,600 pilots are on strike. Most of them joined the company in 2007’s merger from domestic operator Indian Airlines. Since the takeover, Air India has been handing over domestic routes to private provider, diminishing the pilots flying hours and pay.
With no reconciliation in sight, the court reopens hearing on May 25.
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