The talks initiated by the state administration to persuade the Uttaranchal Roadways Karmchari Union (URKU) to take back its proposed call of strike ended in a failure on Tuesday.
The general secretary of the URKU, Ashok Chaudhary said that in the meeting, the management of the Uttarakhand roadways corporation failed to give any satisfactory assurance on the payment of the pending salary of two months. URKU, the biggest union of roadways employees has given a call for strike from May 16. Chaudhary said that apart from payment of salary of two months, the association wants that the benefit of Assured Career Progression (ACP) given in the corporation against norms should be reverted. The association also wants setting up of an EPF cell at the division level for the benefit of the employees.
The URKU also wants that 300 new buses should be purchased without delay and the fleet of the roadways should have minimum 1600 buses.
The talks with URKU was held at state secretariat on the day in which the Managing Director ( MD) of corporation R Rajesh Kumar, senior officials of department and leaders of Employee association participated.