After avoiding a strike with trade and electrical workers, the TTC faces another possible disruption with the union representing 12,000 staff approving a strike mandate.
At least 3,000 buses lay parked across several depots and bus stands in Punjab since midnight as the contractual drivers and conductors tried to impress on the government to address their long-pending demands, such as regularisation and parity of salaries among others.
The Kerala High Court has stayed the operation of an order of a single-judge who had directed the State government to release necessary funds to the cash-strapped KSRTC so that it can pay the salary due to its employees.
To foil the attempts of management, aided by the corrupt unions, to starve them into submission, the MSRTC workers must make their strike the spearhead of a working-class counter-offensive against privatization and precarious contract labour jobs.