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TRS adopts divide & rule policy on civic workers stir
After one year of coming to power the Telangana government is finding it difficult to handle the strike of over 1 lakh municipal workers. With the delay in implementation of minimum wages, fulfilling the promise of regularisation of their services and other demands the employees were left with no option but to go on strike.
Hyderabad: After one year of coming to power the Telangana government is finding it difficult to handle the strike of over 1 lakh municipal workers. With the delay in implementation of minimum wages, fulfilling the promise of regularisation of their services and other demands the employees were left with no option but to go on strike.
The government now appears to be resorting to adopt a divide and rule policy. With workers of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, five municipal corporations and 57 municipalities striking work since July 6, the government held talks with the union which supports the government and did not participate in the agitation.
Interestingly, this union announced that they were withdrawing from the strike. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had earlier promised to regularise the services of contract and outsourcing employees and that he would give them a good PRC. The workers are demanding implementation of minimum wages according to 10th PRC and regularisation of their services.
If PRC is implemented a sewerage worker will get a minimum wage of Rs 14,170 and a skilled worker will get Rs 17,380. peaking to The Hans India Paladudu Bhaskar, State Secretay, CITU, said that the talks were held with the ministers four times since July 6 with 16 demands. The government has not shown its sincerity to resolve the issue.
Meanwhile, the municipal workers Joint Action Committee with seven unions - CITU, AITUC, BMS, HMS, AIUTUC, IFTU, TNTUT would intensify the strike and would organise ‘maha dharna’ with thousands of workers at Indira Park on Saturday, said Paladugu Bhaskar.
The unions claim that if the municipal department implements minimum wages there would be no burden on government because, the salaries of workers are dispersed from the local bodies only. On the other hand another 2 lakh Aasha workers, 108 employees, Aarogyasri workers, second ANMs, Medical and Health contract employees, Village servants’ employees are also likely to go on strike.
