15-06-2025
Government's decision to increase per-day working hours of APSRTC employees opposed
Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Staff and Workers Federation have called for protests and gate meetings at all the depots across the State on June 19 to oppose the State government's decision to increase working hours to 10-hours-a-day and to allow women to work in night shifts.
Speaking at the federation's State committee meeting in Guntur on Sunday, its State president Ch. Sundaraiah and general secretary M. Ayyappa Reddy expressed concern over the government's 'anti-worker policies' and said they would participate in the State-wide protest call given by the Joint Action Committee of Employees and Workers Unions.
The federation leaders demanded that the government implement the circular 1/2019 on conductor's job security, cancel the worker-hostile clauses in GO No. 70, and pay all the pending dues to employees and workers. They also demanded immediate constitution of the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) and announcement of Interim Relief (IR).
The federation has decided to hold its State conference on June 27 in Vijayawada to discuss the issues affecting conductors and other employees. The leaders also announced plans to hold a State-level 13th conference on October 9-10 in Tirupati, and organise training classes for selected activists in July.
They urged the APSRTC management to discuss and resolve the issues affecting employees and workers, and demanded deployment of new buses, recruitment of drivers, conductors and mechanics and payment of all pending dues.
