<p>Sending a strong message to disgruntled staff, the BMTC has initiated the process to sack the employee who spearheaded the bus strikes in December and April. </p>.<p>R Chandrashekhar became the leading figure of the Karnataka State Road Transport Employees’ League, a new group that sprang up overnight and consolidated the support of various splinter groups. They later launched strikes demanding government-employee status to all staff of road transport corporations. </p>.<p>Noting that the Labour Tribunal was seized of the wage revision and other demands filed by the KSRTC Staff and Workers’ Federation, the BMTC invoked the Industrial Dispute Act and petitioned the court seeking Chandrashekhar’s dismissal. </p>
<p>Sending a strong message to disgruntled staff, the BMTC has initiated the process to sack the employee who spearheaded the bus strikes in December and April. </p>.<p>R Chandrashekhar became the leading figure of the Karnataka State Road Transport Employees’ League, a new group that sprang up overnight and consolidated the support of various splinter groups. They later launched strikes demanding government-employee status to all staff of road transport corporations. </p>.<p>Noting that the Labour Tribunal was seized of the wage revision and other demands filed by the KSRTC Staff and Workers’ Federation, the BMTC invoked the Industrial Dispute Act and petitioned the court seeking Chandrashekhar’s dismissal. </p>
