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TSRTC workers on warpath
The worker unions in the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) are on a warpath against the management. The unions are demanding pay revision, which has been pending for the last one year. The recognised union TMU and several other unions, who formed Joint Action Committee (JAC), have decided to serve a strike notice on Thursday.
​Hyderabad: The worker unions in the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) are on a warpath against the management. The unions are demanding pay revision, which has been pending for the last one year. The recognised union TMU and several other unions, who formed Joint Action Committee (JAC), have decided to serve a strike notice on Thursday.
The workers unions have been demanding that the RTC management implement the pay revision, which, they said, was pending for the last one year. The recognised union, TMU, leaders organised Chalo Bus Bhavan and also served a strike notice on the management on Monday and declared that they would go on strike any time after May 21.
After TMU, several other unions, who formed JAC, also decided to serve a strike notice on the TSRTC management. The JAC leaders said they would serve a strike notice on the management on Thursday.
The union leaders pointed out that though the pay revision was due on April 1, last year, it was not implemented till now. The unions drew up a charter of demands, including filling of vacancies. Over 4,000 workers had either retired or quit, but the management had not filled these vacancies, alleged the union leaders. The union leader demanded recruitment of conductors, drivers, shramik, supervisor and other vacant posts.
The unions demanded scrapping of the 1/2017 circular and implement the guidelines. They also demanded job security for the conductors and drivers. The union appealed to the management to ensure that there are doctors at the RTC hospital at Tarnaka and improve the medical facilities. They wanted a change in the age-old regulations, scrapping of the outsourcing employment, reduce the number of hired buses and purchase new buses.
TMU leader E Ashwathama Reddy gave ultimatum to the management that they would go on strike any time after May 21. He also lashed out at the TRS leaders for ignoring their demands. The TRS, he said, should remember that the RTC employees went on strike in support of separate Telangana agitation. He said the government had promised to give funds from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, but nothing was done.
The RTC JAC leader K Raji Reddy said instead of expanding the Corporation after formation of Telangana State, the government has been closing down the RTC units one after the other. Instead of increasing the buses, the management is encouraging hire buses and recruiting staff under outsourcing.
