The National Mazdoor Union (NMU) of APSRTC will picket the offices of the Regional Managers in the State on Thursday as part of the intensification of their agitation for the settlement of their demands.
The RTC management was not implementing the agreements already reached causing heartburn among the employees, said NMU State general secretary Y. Srinivasa Rao. He said NMU, as the recognised trade union, had already brought to the notice of the management about workers’ problems and the issues, which were agreed upon in the past but were not implemented through peaceful means. He said they staged dharnas were held at all the 127 depots on Dec. 30 and 31 and organised they were followed up with relay hunger strikes on Jan 9 and 10 but the RTC management failed to take note of the demands, he told the media here on Tuesday.
The main demands of the employees are: payment of arrears to retired employees, immediate payment of eight-day wages to RTC workers in AP as was done in Telangana, payment of DA arrears, payable from July 2016, treating the 60-day Samaikhyandhra agitation as ‘special leave’, revoking the unilateral decision of the management in reducing the schedules, which was causing inconvenience to passengers, replacement of old buses with new ones, regularisation of contract workers and reduction of VAT on diesel from 30 per cent to 1 per cent for RTC buses as was done in case of flights.
