BANGALORE: Hours before Vijay Mallya's Bangalore Royal Challengers took on the Mumbai Indians in the IPL-6 league match in Bangalore, employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) held a silent ten-minute protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue, adjacent to the cricket stadium.
Around 70 employees comprising of engineers, pilots, ground staff, and cabin crew held placards demanding that Mallya, chairman of KFA, pay their salaries instead of spending money on entertainment activities such as IPL and Formula 1. Employees of KFA haven't been paid their salaries since August last year. 'Money for IPL, not for employees', 'Please pay our salaries, we want to live', read the placards.
The protest was cut short by the police, who escorted the protesters to the nearby Cubbon Park police station, which ironically is sponsored by Mallya's UB Group. The police noted the names of the protesters and let them go on the assurance that no mass gathering would take place without prior police permissions.
""Each time Mallya has an entertainment event, he gives some token salary so that we keep quiet," said an irate KFA pilot. He said that two days ago KFA employees received their salaries for the months of June and July of last year.
The employees said that their silent protests would continue across the country throughout the IPL season. "Banks have stopped issuing loans to us because we are KFA employees and unemployed, hence we have resorted to borrowing money from family and friends," said a KFA engineer.
The employees said that they had no choice but to hang on to their KFA jobs, as the Indian aviation market had few openings. Asked if the news of AirAsia launching its India operations had brought cheer to the job market, a KFA cabin-crew member said, "We are just reading about it in the media, but on the ground nothing has started."Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
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