The North East Karnataka Road Transport Mazdoor Union would launch an indefinite strike in front of the office of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) office in Bengaluru from July 24 demanding to revise their wages by 35 per cent to bring parity between the pay scales of the State and Union government employees.
Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, state vice-president of the union Rangvendrarao Kulkarni and district secretary Devraj Chour said that the workers in all the four state road corporations— KSRTC, BMTC, NWKRTC, and NEKRTC — have rejected the hike of eight per cent in their salaries against the demand of 35 per cent. Terming the hike as meagre, Mr. Chour accused KSTRC authorities for their unilateral decision on wage hike without consulting the workers federation and taking them into confidence. As many as 1.25 lakh employees from across the State will participate in the indefinite strike, he said.
The union had submitted 53 demands, including wage revision, comprehensive health benefit scheme, pension scheme, subsidised canteens in bus depots, to promote trainee employees as probationers, promotion for women employees after every 10 years of service , inter-corporation transfers and to stop forced transfers, Mr. Chour said.
The protest would begin in front of
the BMTC office
in Bengaluru
on July 24
