India | Posted on May 04, 2009 at 04:38pm IST

AAI assures Sena to stay transfer orders

Press Trust Of India

Mumbai: Airport Authority of India (AAI) assured to give stay to transfer orders of its 2,500 employees after Shiv Sena's agitation in Mumbai at the airporton Monday .

"AAI officials have given us a letter ensuring to put stay on transfers of employees till June 15," Sena leader Vinayak Raut told PTI.

A delegation led by Raut and another Sena leader Anand Adsul accompanied by about 500 supporters, met the city airport director to protest the transfer of the employees.

The union demanded that the transfer of AAI employees, mostly of Grade IV class, should not be implemented until June 15.

Sena also threatened to stop the work at the airport if the AAI ignores the demand. Sena leaders held a protest at the office of the director for three hours untill they got the written assurance.

MNS activists also met the airport director in connection with the issue, party officials said.

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