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If you strike, it’ll be last for you: KCR warned TSRTC employees
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday asked the TSRTC employees’ unions to call off their proposed indefinite strike from June 11 as the corporation cannot meet their demands as it was already in crisis with mounting debts of more than Rs 3,000 crore. The CM warned the employees that those who would go on strike would be dismissed from service peremptorily.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday asked the TSRTC employees’ unions to call off their proposed indefinite strike from June 11 as the corporation cannot meet their demands as it was already in crisis with mounting debts of more than Rs 3,000 crore. The CM warned the employees that those who would go on strike would be dismissed from service peremptorily.
KCR said if the unions go on strike, it will be the last agitation for them. He came down heavily on the employees’ unions for calling boycott of their duties when the corporation was struggling hard to overcome the debts. The strike will not only affect the financial position of the corporation but also burden the commuters in the entire state.
The CM said that the RTC has already been mired in Rs 700 crore losses and going for strike at this juncture was irresponsible. The government has given 44 per cent fitment to the RTC workers, which never happened in the history of the corporation. He remined them that strikes are banned in the corporation.
The union leaders are provoking workers to go for strike for benefiting in elections. In many states, the governments had either privatised their RTCs or shut them down. Strike by employees would only result in either of the possibilities in Telangana, he said.
At a high-level meeting with the officials, KCR reviewed the demands put forth by the RTC unions. The CM said that it was his government which had increased the salaries of RTC employees by 44 per cent soon after he assumed office in 2014.
