After postponing strike 3 GSRTC union’s to talk to transport minister

Gandhinagar: The proposed mass strike of the around 45000 odd employees of the three unions of Gujarat State Road Transport Service (GSRTC) from tomorrow, which could have put lacs of examinees of the class 10 and 12 board exams, in big difficulty owing to halting of around 8000 ST buses across the state, has been postponed for now.

Minister of State for Transportation (independent charge) Vallabh Kakadia today informed this in the Gujarat assembly.

He said that the decision to not to go for strike as announced earlier, was taken during the fruitful meeting between the MD of GSRTC, Vijay Nehra and the representatives of the unions.

The minister said that the representatives of the unions would now talk to him also.
The unions had threatened to go on a two-day mass casual leave on March 16 and 17 pressing for their 51 demands, including to not develop bus stations on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis, release of 6 th pay commission arrears, which has been pending since 2006, and implementation of the seventh pay commission.

Notably, Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma had also urged the unions to not to go for strike at a time when over 17. 50 lakh students are taking up class 10 and 12 board exams conducted by the state board. The exams begun today.

DeshGujarat