Minister’s remarks on free travel facility trigger strike by STC crew
The Hindu
They condemn the Minister for painting the entire crew in black
Bus crew attached to the State Transport Corporation, Kumbakonam division, Thanjavur Jabamalaipuram depot, resorted to a flash strike on Friday morning protesting the alleged derogatory remarks made recently by a senior member of the Tamil Nadu Cabinet against the Corporation employees.
Inquiries reveal that some of the bus crew members who arrived at the Jabamalaipuram depot on Friday early morning to take out vehicles for routine town and mofussil services resorted to a flash strike, saying they were hurt by the words uttered by a senior Minister in connection with the implementation of ‘free travel’ facility offered to womenfolk in the STC services.
The Minister, they claimed, responding to a query from the media on the implementation of ‘free travel’ facility, had said that the bus crew should be beaten up with ‘muram’ (rice cleaning equipment used in households) if they failed to treat the women passengers properly.