Negotiating on TV

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/10/2009

The negotiations regarding the Air India executive pilots strike seemed to be carried out entirely on multiple television channels! The pilots aired their reasons for the snap strike on TV channels, the management gave their version on them, then the Union Civil Aviation Minister appealed to the pilots through TV channels to return to work and the pilots responded again through a Live broadcast on TV! Were there no closed door talks at all between the various players?

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