RTC unions ready to end strike, join work
5 years, 1 month ago

RTC unions ready to end strike, join work

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The only solace the striking Telangana State Road Transport Corporations workers found in the Telangana High Court on Monday was the refusal of the court to declare the RTC strike as illegal. While disposing the five PILs seeking to declare the strike as illegal and to direct the state government to negotiate with trade unions, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy referred the matter to the labour court, the appropriate forum to decide the issue, besides taking a call on whether the strike was legal or not. The High Court bench directed the commissioner of labour department to judge on the disputes that led to the strike, saying, “the labour court is the appropriate body to decide whether the strike is legal or illegal, justified or unjustified. Earlier, D. Prakash Reddy, senior counsel representing trade unions, requested the court to give direction to the corporation to take back striking workers without creating any hurdles, as they were ready to join duties and call off the strike.

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Telangana HC: Allow RTC JAC to Conduct Protest Meet, Police Told
1 month ago

Telangana HC: Allow RTC JAC to Conduct Protest Meet, Police Told

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the police to permit a meeting of the TSRTC joint action committee at Bus Bhavan. It was the case of the petitioner that the Delhi High Court directed the authorities to finalise pet shop rules within 15 days from February 26, 2018, and accordingly the Union framed …

Congress, BRS members spar over TGSRTC issues in Telangana Assembly
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress, BRS members spar over TGSRTC issues in Telangana Assembly

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Heated exchanges took place between the ruling Congress and the Opposition BRS in the Telangana Assembly on Wednesday on issues related to the State Road Transport Corporation. Trouble started when BRS MLA T Harish Rao wanted a specific date for the merger of RTC employees into government service. When the Speaker allowed CPI MLA K Sambasiva Rao to speak …

RTC forms Panel, Hired Bus Owners Call off Strike
1 year ago

RTC forms Panel, Hired Bus Owners Call off Strike

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Hired Bus Owners Association has called off its proposed strike from Friday after the TSRTC decided to form a committee to resolve the issues emanating from the Maha Lakshmi scheme for free bus travel, by January 10. The association, with 2,700 bus owners, highlighted five issues, with regard to fuel and maintenance charges, among others. “We …

RTC Staff Beset by Pay Dues, Unpaid Arrears, Increased Work and Inhumane Practices
1 year, 1 month ago

RTC Staff Beset by Pay Dues, Unpaid Arrears, Increased Work and Inhumane Practices

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Having played a crucial role in the statehood movement, employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation are resentful about the treatment meted out to them, with pay revisions remaining on and an increase in workload, among other issues. Increased workload: Workers say that when the Telangana state was constituted, 56,740 employees used to cover 31 to 33 lakh …

Ensure child safety in schools: Telangana HC
1 year, 3 months ago

Ensure child safety in schools: Telangana HC

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar of the Telangana High Court directed the GHMC to consider the representations made by the management of Krishnaveni Talent School and the owners and tenants of various houses in Fatehnagar, Balanagar, while determining the need to demolish the structure. HC faults TSRTC for scrapping bus deal: The Telangana High Court declared the action of the …

HRC faulted for role in land disputes
1 year, 5 months ago

HRC faulted for role in land disputes

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday faulted Telangana State Humans Rights Commission for its involvement in disputes related to properties. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Tadakamalla Vinod Kumar, clarified that any order of the commission regarding title or property related disputes cannot be sustained under the rule of law. The bench cited the Supreme …

Telangana RTC employees plan massive strike over unpaid dues
1 year, 5 months ago

Telangana RTC employees plan massive strike over unpaid dues

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation are set to lock horns with the government over unpaid dues, on the lines of the 2019 agitation when a 55-day strike prompted the state government to resolve their issues and announce a special revenue package to revive the corporation. Kamalakar Goud, state president of the RTC Telangana Mazdoor Union, said: …

RTC staff refrain from joining JAC
1 year, 6 months ago

RTC staff refrain from joining JAC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: TSRTC employees are thinking twice before joining the joint action committee of unions in the corporation. RTC employees were locking horns with the government, but at the time of the Munugode byelection of November 2023 the JAC joined hands with the ruling party and urged the voters to cast their votes for the BRS. The JAC leaders explained that …

Strike by RTC employees played crucial role
1 year, 7 months ago

Strike by RTC employees played crucial role

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The then APSRTC employees, belonging to the Telangana region, were the only employees from the transport sector, to respond to the call of the Joint Action Committee and join the statehood movement full-throttle. The slogan of the protesting employees was ‘Telangana nahi toh RTC ka paiyya hilega nahin’. Recalling those moments, Komirelly Rajireddy, JAC convener from RTC, said “All …

Power artisans to go on strike, striking employees will lose jobs, warns govt
1 year, 8 months ago

Power artisans to go on strike, striking employees will lose jobs, warns govt

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Nearly 23,000 artisans working in the TS power utilities will go on strike from Tuesday demanding a hike in salaries and other benefits. The Telangana Vidyut Employees Union, a faction of the State Electricity Employees Union, called for a strike in support of six demands for artisans in power utilities. Talks with the JAC leaders succeeded after the power …

Another union called for electricity strike from April 25
1 year, 8 months ago

Another union called for electricity strike from April 25

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In a surprise move, the Telangana Vidyut Employees Union a faction of the state electricity employees union, called for a strike from April 25 in support of six demands for artisans in power utilities. The Telangana State Power Employees Joint Action Committee and Telangana State Electricity Employees Joint Action Committee had agreed to a memorandum of settlement on April …

Electricity employees divided over protests from April 17
1 year, 9 months ago

Electricity employees divided over protests from April 17

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Electricity employees are a divided lot over the proposed strike from April 17 demanding a hike in salaries and implementation of other demands. The Telangana State Power Employees Joint Action Committee, which comprises 24 unions, served a strike notice, which is being opposed by the Telangana Electricity Employees Joint Action Committee. The TSPEJAC has conducted preparatory meetings in undivided …

TS power dept workers to strike from April 17 over pending demands
1 year, 9 months ago

TS power dept workers to strike from April 17 over pending demands

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Around 50,000 workers of the electricity department announced on Thursday their decision to go on a strike from April 17, to press for a salary hike backdated from April 1, 2022, as per the Pay Revision Commission’s suggestions. The Telangana State Power Employees Joint Action Committee and five unrelated unions took a joint call on the matter and said …

Andhra Pradesh transport wing employees plan protest on December 20 seeking payment of pending allowances
2 years ago

Andhra Pradesh transport wing employees plan protest on December 20 seeking payment of pending allowances

The Hindu  

Demanding immediate payment of pending amounts towards overtime and night shift allowances, leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department Employees’ Union plan to organise gate meetings in the 129 depots and four zonal workshops across the State on December 20. They said the new pay scales based on the recommendations of the 11th PRC were implemented for the employees …

TSRTC workers await payments of salary hike, DA dues
2 years, 1 month ago

TSRTC workers await payments of salary hike, DA dues

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Employees of TSRTC are seeking payment of pending salary hikes, along with dearness allowances hikes, which have been pending since April 2017. TSRTC members said that worker unions met ministers K.T. M. Nageshwar Rao, a former board member of RTC, said, “The government had invited the unions at that point of as these employees should not create any kinds …

Nationwide strike: Trade unions in Telangana raise unified voice against the Centre’s “anti-worker” policies
2 years, 9 months ago

Nationwide strike: Trade unions in Telangana raise unified voice against the Centre’s “anti-worker” policies

The Hindu  

Raising a unified voice against the Centre’s “anti-worker” policies, members of various trade unions staged sit-in demonstrations at multiple locations in the State’s coal belt region as the 48-hour nationwide strike called by the joint forum of central trade unions began this morning. Members of the Singareni Collieries Workers’ Union, affiliated to the AITUC, staged a demonstration in front of …

Telangana RTC workers seek reintroduction of unions
2 years, 11 months ago

Telangana RTC workers seek reintroduction of unions

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation are demanding the reintroduction of workers’ unions which were banned in 2019. RTC employees alleged that the EWB was not able to solve the issues faced by the workers for the past two years of its existence. Presently, the employees were forced to work for extra hours, they said, adding that …

RTC employees ready to go on strike
2 years, 11 months ago

RTC employees ready to go on strike

The Hindu  

There is no clarity on whether the RTC employees will go on strike from the midnight of February 6. 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 …

Karnataka HC asks RTCs to expeditiously decide on employee appeals
3 years, 8 months ago

Karnataka HC asks RTCs to expeditiously decide on employee appeals

The Hindu  

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the four public road transport corporations in the State to expeditiously decide on the appeal against the suspension of over 3,000 employees in connection with the recent strike. The court allowed the Karnataka State Transport Employees’ League to file common appeals for each division of the RTCs on behalf of the suspended …

'Worst Time To Strike' : Karnataka High Court On Transport Employees Strike
3 years, 8 months ago

'Worst Time To Strike' : Karnataka High Court On Transport Employees Strike

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday observed that "perhaps this is possibly the worst time to take recourse to the strike," while issuing notice to Karnataka State Road Transport Employees League, which has called for an indefinite strike of all bus services run by the four road transport corporations in the state, from April 7. The court said "We hope …

Karnataka RTC workers strike enters 6th day, bus services continue to be hit
3 years, 8 months ago

Karnataka RTC workers strike enters 6th day, bus services continue to be hit

India TV News  

Bus services were hampered for the sixth consecutive day in Karnataka, as the strike by the employees of the road transport corporations on wage related issues continued on Monday. With a stalemate between the government and employees of the four transport corporations in the state, over their demand for wages as per the 6th Pay Commission continuing, majority of the …

Karnataka government warns RTC workers against bus strike, rules out negotiations
3 years, 9 months ago

Karnataka government warns RTC workers against bus strike, rules out negotiations

Firstpost  

Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar said the demand for implementation of the 6th Pay Commission for transport employees cannot be fulfilled Bengaluru: With drivers and conductors of road transport corporations set to begin a strike on wage related issues from 7 April, the Karnataka government on Tuesday warned of strict action and ruled out any negotiations with them. Appealing to …

Karnataka RTC strike from April 7: What will be affected
3 years, 9 months ago

Karnataka RTC strike from April 7: What will be affected

India TV News  

Drivers and conductors of road transport corporations in Karnataka will begin a strike on wage-related issues from Wednesday, April 7. The state government made it clear that their demand for implementation of the sixth pay commission report for the Road Transport Corporation workers cannot be fulfilled. "Transport employees have given a call to go on strike from tomorrow, the Chief …

Andhra Assembly passes bill to merge APSTRC with state govt
5 years ago

Andhra Assembly passes bill to merge APSTRC with state govt

India TV News  

Despite protesting for two months, Telangana Road Transport Corporation employees may not have got their demands met, but the dream of Andhra RTC employees' dream will soon come true. The Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Monday passed a bill pertaining to the merger of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation with the government. About the passage of this bill, Andhra …

Telangana High Court on strike: All’s well that ends well
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana High Court on strike: All’s well that ends well

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court was not inclined to go into the issue of the government ignoring the TSRTC trade unions. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Cha-uhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy dismissed with the PIL filed by retired Osmania University professor P.L. The bench dismissed the PIL with citing the name of a Shakespearean play, “All’s …

About 48,000 Telangana RTC employees resume duties after 52-days strike
5 years, 1 month ago

About 48,000 Telangana RTC employees resume duties after 52-days strike

India TV News  

Around 48,000 workers of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation resume their duties on Friday after calling off 52 days strike. Telangana Chief Minister welcomed back TSRTC employees who have joined their duties on Friday. Member of Legislative Council Ramchander Rao said that that the RTC employees have joined their duties but the state government was not prepared in any way …

K Chandrasekhar Rao, RTC staff meet on December 1
5 years, 1 month ago

K Chandrasekhar Rao, RTC staff meet on December 1

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will meet Road Transport Corporation workers from all the 97 depots in the state on December 1 at Pragathi Bhavan in the city. The chief minister wanted workers representatives to reach Pragathi Bhavan by 12 noon and lunch arrangements were made for them at the venue. Transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar thanked the Chief …

K Chandrasekhar Rao lets RTC staff join duty
5 years, 1 month ago

K Chandrasekhar Rao lets RTC staff join duty

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Giving relief to TSRTC workers, who have ended their 55-day-old strike and are waiting to return to work, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday said the Cabinet had decided to give them a chance to resume duty unconditionally. Stating that “RTC workers are our children,” Mr Rao said the Cabinet had decided to release `100 crore as immediate …

RTC staff may get conditional reprieve
5 years, 1 month ago

RTC staff may get conditional reprieve

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state Cabinet on Friday may take a decision on allowing Telangana State Road Transport Corporation workers to resume duties. The Cabinet could also discuss the issue of privatising 5,100 RTC routes and explore the possibility of announcing a Voluntary Retirement Scheme for the RTC workers. For privatising RTC routes, the state government would have to request the Central …

Tussle over salaries of RTC staff continues
5 years, 1 month ago

Tussle over salaries of RTC staff continues

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Aggravating the worst economic situation of TSRTC workers, who lost almost two months’ salary due to the strike, the TSRTC, on Wednesday, claimed before the high court that it has power to deduct the wages of the workers for wilful absenteeism. While in arguments in the petitions filed by the Telangana Jathiya Mazdoor Union and TSRTC Bahujana Karmika Union …

Congress hits out at K Chandrasekhar Rao, seeks PM Modi’s intervention
5 years, 1 month ago

Congress hits out at K Chandrasekhar Rao, seeks PM Modi’s intervention

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Opposition parties have lambasted the state government for its attitude towards RTC workers who have called off their strike. Congress MPs N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Komatireddy Venkatareddy and A. Revanth Reddy met Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the issue. Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy, in a statement, expressed his anguish and agony at the …

Telangana High Court blames RTC unions for death of workers
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana High Court blames RTC unions for death of workers

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday remarked that the leaders of the RTC trade unions were to be blamed for the deaths of workers from suicide and cardiac arrests, rather than blaming the state for the deaths. Visheshwara Rao, professing that the government’s and Chief Minister’s attitude caused the deaths, the division bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan …

Vain RTC strike of 52 days creates record
5 years, 1 month ago

Vain RTC strike of 52 days creates record

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The 52-day Telangana State Road Transport Corporation strike has created the record of being the longest protest, while being a great failure. The current RTC strike, called off on Monday, also makes history in that during the 52 days, 30 employees have died, including due to suicides. After dropping its main demand, the RTC JAC came forward to call …

KCR goes ahead with RTC privatisation plan
5 years, 1 month ago

KCR goes ahead with RTC privatisation plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, is likely to call for a Cabinet meeting in next week to discuss the privatisation of 5,100 Road Transport Corporation routes against the backdrop of Telangana High Court paving the way for granting route permits to private stage carriers. The court ruled that the state government had ample power under the Motor Vehicles Act …

Opposition parties in Telangana seek Governor's intervention in RTC strike
5 years, 1 month ago

Opposition parties in Telangana seek Governor's intervention in RTC strike

India TV News  

The Congress, TDP and BJP besides other opposition parties on Wednesday sought Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan's intervention to resolve the stir by employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation which began on October 5, to press their various demands. Despite the best efforts of the employee's unions, political parties and even the High Court, the state government is turning a …

Telangana govt eyes conditions for returning staff
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana govt eyes conditions for returning staff

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government wants to impose some conditions if the RTC workers call off the strike and rejoin duty. If the RTC workers do not accept these conditions, the government will take a decision about what to do with them after the verdict of the labour court, where the High Court has referred the strike. Meanwhile, in response to …

Telangana: TSRTC strike enters 45th day, health of striking employees deteriorate
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana: TSRTC strike enters 45th day, health of striking employees deteriorate

India TV News  

Leaders of striking employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation continued their fast in a state-run hospital here on Monday even as doctors advised them to end their protest in view of their health condition. Aswathama Reddy and Raji Reddy, both hypertensive and diabetic, were developing ketone bodies, and have been advised to call off their fast as its continuance …

Telangana RTC union leader continues fast in hospital
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana RTC union leader continues fast in hospital

India TV News  

The indefinite strike by employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation entered its 45th day on Monday even as their leader Ashwathama Reddy continued his hunger strike at a hospital here. The TSRTC Joint Action Committee leader continued his fast at the government-run Osmania Hospital, where he was shifted by the police after arresting him on Sunday. He made it …

Hyderabad: JAC bus roko stir foiled, 5,000 held
5 years, 1 month ago

Hyderabad: JAC bus roko stir foiled, 5,000 held

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The ‘Bus Roko’ call given by the Joint Action Committee of the workers unions of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation on Sat-urday caused mild tensions in some parts of Hyderabad, besides several parts across the state when police tried to take the union leaders into preventive custody. In view of the Bus Roko call, police started arre-sts of …

Telangana rejects HC’s 3-judge panel to end RTC strike
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana rejects HC’s 3-judge panel to end RTC strike

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Sticking to its guns that there would not be any reconciliation and negotiation proceedings with the RTC trade unions, the Telangana government on Wednesday expressed its unwillingness to accept the High Court’s proposal for a high-powered committee, comprising three retired judges of the Supreme Court, to examine the issues leading to the TSRTC employees’ strike. Chief Secretary Shailendra Kumar …

Telangana HC sets up panel to end RTC stir
5 years, 1 month ago

Telangana HC sets up panel to end RTC stir

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: After a fairly long period of time without any concrete step towards a redressal to the ongoing RTC strike, as a last resort, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday came to a decision to constitute a high powered committee, comprising three retired judges of the Supreme Court to conduct arbitral proceedings. However, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra …

RTC has to immediately pay out Rs 2,210 crore, Govt tells Telangana HC
5 years, 1 month ago

RTC has to immediately pay out Rs 2,210 crore, Govt tells Telangana HC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government has informed the Telangana High Court that the strike-ridden Telangana State Road Corporation, which is grappling with financial issues must address its immediate and long-term liabilities. Joshi filed an affidavit before the High Court stating that in so far as immediate liabilities are concerned, the outstanding payments, including statutory payments, which TSRTC has to pay immediately, …

Telangana High Court castigates bureaucracy over lies
5 years, 2 months ago

Telangana High Court castigates bureaucracy over lies

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: It was not a good day in court for some of the top officials and bureaucrats of the Telangana state government on Thursday, with the two-Justice Bench showing the top bureaucrats of K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s government their place. The higher echelons of the TS bureaucracy, inclu-ding the chief secretary, had to face the full flow of the majestic wrath …

Centre: Andhra Pradesh’s RTC split incomplete
5 years, 2 months ago

Centre: Andhra Pradesh’s RTC split incomplete

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Central government on Thursday gave striking Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees a huge relief, by categorically submitting before the High Court that the TSRTC was not a statutory entity. He further submitted that the Telangana government has never sought to establish a legal entity called TSRTC, under Section 47 of Transport Act, as was mandatory, nor has …

K Chandrashekar Rao set to decide RTC future today
5 years, 2 months ago

K Chandrashekar Rao set to decide RTC future today

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will take a final call on Wednesday on the fate of the TSRTC workers who do not rejoin duty by Tuesday midnight. After the Chief Minister set a new but final deadline of Tuesday midnight for workers to report to work, 208 workers have reported to work as of Tuesday 9 pm. The Cabinet …

RTC staff get 2-day deadline
5 years, 2 months ago

RTC staff get 2-day deadline

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Cabinet on Saturday decided unanimously not to merge the TSRTC with the government and issued a fresh deadline to the striking workers to unconditionally join duty by the midnight of November 5. The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao also resolved to issue permits for a total of 5,100 routes being operated by the RTC …

RTC losing Rs 3 crore a day since wokers’ strike began
5 years, 2 months ago

RTC losing Rs 3 crore a day since wokers’ strike began

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Spending around Rs 6 crore per day and earning only Rs 3 crore, the TS Road Transport Corporation has incurred a loss of Rs 72 crore in the 26 days of the ongoing workers’ strike. Explaining the financial position of the RTC, Mr Sharma placed an affidavit before the court, stating that the TSRTC has been given funds by …

TSRTC strike enters 25th day: Protesters rub their nose on ground to mark 'mistake' in voting for K Chandrasekhar Rao govt
5 years, 2 months ago

TSRTC strike enters 25th day: Protesters rub their nose on ground to mark 'mistake' in voting for K Chandrasekhar Rao govt

Firstpost  

Employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation on Wednesday intensified their indefinite protest against the sacking of over 40,000-odd employees by the state government. Hyderabad: Employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation on Wednesday intensified their indefinite protest against the sacking of over 40,000-odd employees by the state government. The agitated workers rubbed their nose on the ground …

Another TSRTC worker commits suicide as protests enter 24th day; ex-CPI MLA slams KCR for 'police rule', says indefinite fast will continue
5 years, 2 months ago

Another TSRTC worker commits suicide as protests enter 24th day; ex-CPI MLA slams KCR for 'police rule', says indefinite fast will continue

Firstpost  

Another employee of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation allegedly committed suicide on Monday at her residence in Telangana’s Khammam, taking the number of TSRTC employee suicides to four. Meanwhile, former CPI MLA K Sambasiva Rao, who began an indefinite fast two days ago in support of the striking employees, was shifted to a government hospital in Hyderabad by police …

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