The KSRTC Staff and Workers Union affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has urged the government to revise wages, which was due to be implemented on January 1 this year.
Members of the union, led by district president and former Mayor Nagesh Sateri and general secretary C.S. Beednal, on Tuesday staged a symbolic protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office and submitted a memorandum pointing out that the government had committed itself to revising wages of the KSRTC staff and workers once in every four years. Accordingly, the revised pay scales should have come into effect on January 1, 2016.
However, Mr. Sateri said, the government had adopted delaying tactics only to exploit the workers. Also, the government was not allowing elections to be conducted to the union, due to which workers were being harassed and exploited by officials.
The government should immediately convene a bipartite meeting with the union to finalise the wage revision issue without further delay, he said.
