Mysore/Mysuru: Despite the Government’s warning that it would invoke the ESMA (Essential Services and Maintenance Act) to thwart the State Transport employees strike, employees of the 4 State-run Transport Corporations (KSRTC, NWKRTC, KKRTC and BMTC) will launch an indefinite strike across the State from 6 am on Aug. 5, seeking fulfilment of their demands.
In a press statement released on Wednesday, the Joint Action Committee of State Transport Corporations’ Unions, which included AITUC affiliated KSRTC Staff and Workers Federation, CITU affiliated Akhila Karnataka Transport Workers Federation, CITU affiliated KSRTC Employees Federation, KSRTC SC/ST Employees Association, KSRTC SC/ST Officers and Staff Welfare Association and KSRTC Employees Union, said that the KSRTC staff would not be scared by the State Government’s act of invoking ESMA to stop the strike.
