'AI CMD resorting to dictatorship'

The unions said they can neither reply to the notices issued by the court nor take legal remedy as their offices have been sealed by the management.“Our records have been sealed and we cannot take any legal remedy. We cannot reply to the notices issued by the court,” Air Corporations Employees Union (ACEU) general secretary J B Kadiyan told reporters here.

“AI CMD Arvind Jadhav is carrying out dictatorship. He is bent on destroying the airline. He is trying to instigate the workers to go for action, and then declare a lockout on that pretext,” he said.

Kadiyan claimed that the management initiated disciplinary proceedings “immediately after we signed the conciliation proceedings on Wednesday evening. “We withdrew our strike on a personal appeal by Chief Labour Commissioner S K Mukhopadhyay and in the interest of the company,” the ACEU leader said, adding that all offices of ACEU and AIAEA across the country were sealed.“Management representatives have tampered with our records and even took away some of them. How shall we fight the court battle when we don’t have any record?,” he said.