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The A.P. State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Employees’ Union and the A.P. Public Transport Department (APPTD) National Mazdoor Unity Association (NMUA) connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) announced that a associated gathering of assorted RTC worker unions would beryllium held connected Monday (June 8) astatine the RTC Employees’ Union State bureau successful Vijayawada.
The gathering volition absorption connected worker payment issues, authorities policies, and the interaction of the projected instauration of electrical buses done backstage operators connected the aboriginal of APSRTC, said a associated connection issued by NMUA State president Y. Srinivasa Rao, RTC Employees’ Union State president Palisetti Damodara Rao and State wide secretaries P.V. Ramana Reddy and G.V. Narasayya.
The gathering would clasp elaborate discussions connected the challenges posed by the backstage electrical autobus argumentation to nationalist transport services, the endurance of APSRTC, and the aboriginal of its employees. The participants volition besides deliberate connected large issues faced by PTD employees, imaginable solutions, and a aboriginal people of associated action.
The leaders said the gathering is expected to sermon the enactment of a Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising each worker unions successful APSRTC with the superior nonsubjective of protecting APSRTC, safeguarding employees’ rights, strengthening nationalist transport services and ensuring the organisation’s development.
The information that the State authorities is moving up with the induction of electrical buses nether arrangements involving backstage operators has not gone down good with the worker unions, which fearfulness that expanding backstage information successful nationalist transport could gradually trim APSRTC’s operational role, impact occupation security, weaken the corporation’s fiscal presumption and pave the mode for further privatisation.
Unions argued that outsourcing autobus operations whitethorn adversely interaction existing employees, aboriginal recruitment, promotions, and moving conditions. They are seeking assurances that nationalist transport services volition stay nether APSRTC’s control.
The decisions taken astatine the gathering and the projected agitation programme for resolving worker issues and protecting APSRTC would beryllium announced astatine a property conference, the leaders said.
