Bengaluru Metro staff defer strike by month
The unrecognised union of Bengaluru Metro employees gave an undertaking on deferring the strike after the company assured the Karnataka High Court of its willingness to hold talks with them on their demands. The court is hearing the company’s petition to vacate the stay it granted in July last year on invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the employees resorting to strike and disrupting its service to the public
The state government had invoked ESMA after a section of Bengaluru Metro staff resorted to a flash strike on July 8 last year disrupting the service and causing harrowing time to thousands of commuters on a working day. Image source: Youtube