K taka transport union calls off protest, bus services to resume
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Mon, Dec 14 2020 20:33 IST |
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Bengaluru, Dec 14 : Prominent farmer leader Kodihalli Chandrashekhar, who led the Karnataka Transport Workers Union protest for four days, on Monday said that the workers were withdrawing their protest and would resume their duties across the state.
This announcement comes after Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation Chairman Nandish Reddy as a government s representative handed over a written assurance in which nine of the 10 demands were accepted by the state government.
Addressing the agitating staff members here, Chandrashekhar clarified that the government in effect has accepted eight of the demands as in the case of ninth demand on implementing Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the state government had assured only if it gets finance department s clearance, which means to say that it is still very ambiguous.
Karnataka road transport staff makes U-turn, to continue strike
Mon, Dec 14 2020 08:32:01 AM
Bengaluru, Dec 14 (IANS): Making a U-turn hours after withdrawing 4-day strike and resuming bus services, the Karnataka road transport employees decided on Sunday night to continue the agitation till all their demands were met by the state government. As our main demand to make us government employees has not been met, we will continue the strike, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Employees Union Secretary R. Chandru declared at Freedom Park in the city centre, where the workers have been staging sit-in demonstration since Thursday.
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Though the Union leaders agreed to withdraw the strike after talks with state Transport Minister Laxman Savadi, state Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai and state Revenue Minister R. Ashoka at the state secretariat (Vikas Soudha), they reversed their decision even as drivers and conductors resumed bus services across
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Bus strike today: The sudden strike by the KSRTC, BMTC staff since Thursday had disrupted the public transport across Karnataka. Buses remain parked at a bus depot as Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) employees went on a strike to press for their various demands | Photo Credit: IANS
Bengaluru: The Karnataka road transport employees on Monday decided to withdraw the protest. According to Karnataka Transport Employees Union president Kodihally Chandrasekhar, bus services will resume from this evening.
On Sunday, the Karnataka road transport employees had taken a U-turn when it decided to continue the protest hours after withdrawing the four-day strike.
K taka road transport staff withdraw strike, buses resume
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Sun, Dec 13 2020 21:42 IST |
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K taka road transport staff withdraw strike, buses resume. Image Source: IANS News
Bengaluru, Dec 13 : Karnataka s road transport employees on Sunday called off their 4-day strike after the state government responded to some of their demands, enabling resumption of bus services across the southern state. As we accepted some of their demands at a meeting with their union leaders, the road transport employees have agreed to withdraw the strike and resume bus services from tonight, state Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi told reporters here. Though the state government agreed to offer health insurance under the Arogya Sanjeevini scheme, wage revision and inter-corporation transfers, the demand for government-employee status has been rejected, asserted Savadi, who holds the transport portfolio.