As per report the telangana high court on monday directed the Labour Commissioner to take a decision, within two weeks, on the 45 day long strike by employees of the telangana State Road Transport Corporation. Meanwhile a division bench headed by Chief Justice R S Chauhan asked the Labour Commissioner to decide whether to move the Labour court or not.
When reiterating that the high court can't decide whether the strike is illegal or not, the bench observed that the Labour court has power to do so and employees told the court that the employees are ready to call off the strike and join their duties provided there are no troubles for the employees once they join back at work. Furthermore the bench observed that the court has its own limitations but hoped that if the employees call off the strike and return to their duties, the government or the TSRTC will not take any action against them.
Moreover jac convenor ashwathama reddy called off his indefinite fast at government-run osmania hospital after persuasion from leaders of opposition parties. He said the jac would take a call on ending the strike after going through the copy of the court verdict. He also said that respecting the court order, the jac has decided to postpone Tuesday's 'sadak bandh'. Apparently the indefinite strike by over 48,000 employees of rtc entered the 46th day on Tuesday. Even though the jac last week announced temporarily dropping the main demand of the TSRTC's merger with the government, the latter gave no indication of any imminent talks to break the impasse.
