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govts unions impasse over strike continues
govts-unions impasse over strike continues. It seems that deadlock between the employees of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) will continue since employees refused to budge from their demand of 43 percent hike in salaries.
Hyderabad: With talks between the governments of both the states and leaders of striking employees, failed to break the impasse, on Sunday, there was no respite for commuters since state-owned buses remained off the roads for the last six days in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
- The strike enters the sixth day as employees decline to accept 27% hike offered by both the states.
- RTC employees would defend their case even in the court of law on Tuesday
It seems that deadlock between the employees of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) will continue since employees refused to budge from their demand of 43 percent hike in salaries.
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More than one lakh employees of APSRTC continued their strike defying May 9 orders of Hyderabad High Court, which termed the strike illegal and asked the employees to call it off immediately. But with the Court to take up further hearing of two PILs against the strike, on Tuesday, the employees unions decided to represent their case strongly in the court of law and justify their demand for pay hike.
Meanwhile, Cabinet sub-committees of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, on Sunday, held talks with leaders of striking employees in their respective states. While the governments urged the employees to accept 27 percent hike offered by the APSRTC management, but unions refused to budge for anything less than 43%.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting. He asked the sub-committee to keep in mind the interests of both APSRTC as well as the employees while taking a decision to end the impasse. The striking employees staged protests at depots.
At some places, they cooked food on the roads and also organized 'Swacch Bharat' programme to lodge protest over what they call indifferent attitude of the management. APSRTC, which is running into losses, is using the services of contract employees to operate few services. However, majority of nearly 20,000 buses remained off the roads, causing severe inconvenience to people.
