RTC employees ready to go on strike

They await the final word from PRC Sadhana Samithi

There is no clarity on whether the RTC employees will go on strike from the midnight of February 6. The representatives of the employees’ unions say they are geared up for the strike, but the final word has to come from the PRC Sadhana Samithi.

The employees have already submitted a memorandum to the RTC Vice-Chairman and MD informing him of their decision to strike work from February 6 in support of the government employees, who have been agitating against the “injustice done to them in the PRC.”

“After the merger of RTC with the government (AP Public Transport Department), we seem to be neither here nor there. In the past, our pay scales used to be revised once in four years, unlike the government employees, whose pay used to be revised once in five years. Now, we have also been made a part of the government, but our designation and cadre have not been fixed so far. The government plans to revise the tenure for the PRC from the existing five to 10 years,” say RTC JAC conveners Y. Srinivasa Rao and Valisetty Damodara Rao.