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NEW DELHI: Employees of India's national carrier Air India staged a nationwide two-hour strike on Friday to protest what they said was management's failure to pay salaries on time. The walkout was called by the airline's two largest unions, despite a warning from company executives that they would deduct wages from employees who participated in any stoppage. Last month the management of the struggling state-run airline -- which merged with government-run domestic carrier Indian Airlines last year -- sent a notice to its employees saying it would defer 73 million dollars in June wages until July 15. But the carrier later said it would pay salaries to lower-ranked employees by Friday. "We are staging a walkout and demonstration for two hours as the management has failed to honour its commitment given to the unions to pay our... [read full story]
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General Steel Holdings, Inc. , one of China's leading non-state-owned producers of steel products and aggregators of domestic steel companies, today announced that members of its management team will participate in Goldman...
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