Employees of the Delhi Metro are claiming that DMRC management fails to keep its last year promise. Now they don’t have any other options left but to go on strike from Saturday onwards. If DMRC management cannot fulfill their demands.
Delhi metro may face a tough time from Saturday as metro 9000 nonexecutive employees threatened to go on strike from Saturday onwards. The 9000 nonexecutive employees including train operators, station controllers, technicians, operations said staff, and maintenance staff is protesting since 19 June. They are protesting on various depots and control rooms of Delhi metro.
The protest is all about for the revision of salary terms and right to form the workers union.
Nonexecutive member plays the significant role in running the metro station. If the strike took place on Saturday, it would totally cripple the service. Last year also these nonexecutive employees had threatened to go on strike on similar demands.
The crises, however, averted at the last moment after the DMRC management and staff council agreed to a series of meeting.
This year the nonexecutive employees are claiming that DMRC management has not kept its last year promise. Now they have no other options left other than going to strike if their demands not met.
Demands of members
Employees are demanding hike in the pay, payment of arrears, right to form a union and fixed guidelines for sacking an employee only in extreme conditions.
They are claiming that there is no consistency maintained by the DMRC regarding the upgradations of scale. Employees are stuck in one grade for 10 years.
Our first demand is that the DMRC staff council be changed to a DMRC employees union. Others demands of the nonexecutive member include the implementation of our industrial dearness allowance as per the 3rd revision scale.
Deli metro rail corporation staff council secretary Ravi Bhardwaj said “ there would be no maintenance of trains and trains will not be rolled out of train depots. Station controllers would ensure that entry to metro stations is also closed for the public”.
If on 30 June employees of Delhi metro go on strike it would be a tough time for all the metro passengers.