The Telangana Municipal Employees and Workers United Union has intensified its agitation demanding that the state government solve the employees' long-pending demands.
The union said that the employees had decided to go on strike from June 25 as the government had failed to respond to their agitation at the mandal levels.
The municipal employees and workers are demanding that the government increase their salaries, and provide health cards, ESI and PF to them.
CITU leader Venkatesh alleged that the government had failed to respond to the agitations taken up by the employees and workers for some time.
He asked the TRS government why it had increased the salaries of government and RTC employees but was not responding to the municipal employees' demand for higher salaries and solutions to other problems.
He said that the CITU, FTU, BMS, HMS, IFTU, AITUC and TSTU had already served strike notices to the government on June 8, but that there was no response from the government.
He said that the unions would take up zone-level dharnas from June 16 to June 25. Dharnas would be staged from June 23 in all the municipalities, he said, and made it clear that the employees would go on strike from June 25 in case the government failed to respond to their issues. (NSS)
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