Telangana, 13 May: RTC Strike – Ch. Chandrasekhara Reddy, the Employees Union President aforementioned that as a result of the court had given them a day’s time, the strike would continue on Wednesday.
As the in progress APSRTC strike entered the seventh day on weekday, the staff Union sought-after 2 days’ time for them to convene a general body meeting and discuss the modalities of line off their indefinite struggle seeking forty three per cent pay hikes.
However, the tribunal in its orders issued slightly past high noon on weekday, gave them a day’s time solely. When contacted, staff Union President Ch. Chandrasekhara Reddy aforementioned that as a result of the court had given them a day’s time, the strike would continue on Wednesday.
Union General Secretary K. Padmakar aforementioned that that they had place forth their arguments before the tribunal, spoken communication however their agitation had become inevitable. “It has been twenty five months currently since we tend to were secure the pay hike, however it’s however to enforced. Currently once we area unit stern forty three per cent, the management seems to possess frozen at a lesser proportion,” he said.
Explaining additional, he aforementioned that it absolutely was unhappy however argued that there was no various for the employees however to agitate. “If the Court doesn’t offer United States 2 days’ time, we’ll continue, even intensify our strike,” he declared.
APSRTC director Nanduri Sambasiva Rao aforementioned that he had briefed the province cupboard Sub-Committee on weekday on this state of affairs and therefore the attainable approach forward to finish the impasse between the staff and management.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the management may operate sixty per cent of its regular services in AP and forty per cent in Telangana. However in contrast to things in cities like Hyderabad and Secunderabad on weekday, once forty five per cent of urban services were run, the quantity of buses plying on the roads of the dual cities on weekday was so much less.