With the employees’ unions in the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) launching an indefinite strike against the management in protest against the delay in disbursing the full salary of employees, the corporation management and employees are yet again on the warpath, locking horns over salary and pension distribution.
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions-affiliated Kerala State Road Transport Employees Association (KSRTEA) and Indian National Trade Union Congress-affiliated Transport Democratic Federation (TDF) on Saturday launched an indefinite strike in front of the chief office of the KSRTC here demanding the full salary of employees in single instalment, while the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh-affiliated Kerala State Transport Employees Sangh (KSTES), has declared a 24-hour strike from May 7 midnight.
Meanwhile, the KSRTC has decided to invoke dies non for three days for employees not reporting for work in view of the indefinite strike called by the unions on Monday. In a statement issued by the office of the KSRTC Managing Director on Saturday, the employees who do not turn up for work on May 8 will be considered as absent on May 7, 8 and 9. When a 24-hour strike is announced, the service on the day before and after the day of the strike will be affected. It is against this backdrop the corporation invoked dies non for three days.
