A section of transport corporation employees observing fast in Cuddalore on Tuesday.
CUDDALORE:
A section of transport corporation employees observed fast in front of the transport corporation office here on Tuesday.
The employees, owing allegiance to Anna Thozhirsanga Peravai, Centre of Trade Unions and Marumalarchi Labour Front, participated in it. G. Bhaskaran, district president of the CITU, said the employees were of the view that the recent wage agreement had not done justice to them. The salary structure of the transport corporation employees was below their counterparts in other government departments. For instance, the drivers with 21 years' experience in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and those in Aavin drew Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 8,000 more than their counterparts with similar experience in the transport corporation.
Mr. Bhaskaran further said that though the government had claimed to have given a hike ranging from Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 7,500 to the transport corporation employees, it was hardly Rs. 2,200 for one lakh of 1.5 lakh employees. The trade unions were also urging the government to reinstate seven employees, who were suspended following the recent strike and to withdraw “false cases foisted on” 18 employees. It also urged the corporation to reinstate the reserve drivers and reserve conductors, who were unceremoniously dropped. Mr Bhaskaran said that the transport corporation was not revealing the exact number of reserve drivers and reserve conductors thus affected.
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