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| SRTC employees garner support, countrywide protests on Dec 10 | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 30: They tried all the means –bare chest protests, sit-ins with beggar bowls in hands, their kids holding placards asking the Chief Minister to give them a pint of poison if there were no salaries for their parents, the SRTC employees have now taken their story of woes to the nation causing a clear embarrassment to the government.
Denied salaries for over eight months, the agitating employees of the government owned State Road Transport Corporation, currently in Delhi, have mobilized massive support of their counterparts in other states. In a show of unity, the state owned Roadways employees country-wide would hold protests on all district headquarters on December 10 in support of the on-going protests by Jammu and Kashmir SRTC employees.
All India Road Transport Workers Federation national president Harinarayan Sharma told reporters in Delhi today that the Roadways workers, including those of Haryana Roadways, would hold protests and submit a memorandum through District Commissioner to Jammu and Kashmir as well as Central government stating that if the salaries were not paid soon, the agitation of J and K Roadways employees would spread across the nation.
He also said that nation-wide protests were also planned to press for the subsidy on diesel and increase in number of buses running in government sector.
The other demands included strict implementation of Labour laws, providing social security, putting an end to privatisation, contract system, retrenchment end to ''exploitaion'' of workers and labourers in private and public sector.
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