BREAK DEADLOCK

TSRTC employees have been continuing the strike into the third week with the government not showing any serious concern or taking steps to resolve the issues being raised by the striking employees. The common man is being put to hardship (HC orders RTC bosses to begin talks with staff, Oct 19). Public transport system comes under essential services and whenever such services are paralysed and when there is a deadlock and conflicting parties are not coming to terms, the High Court is constitutionally duty bound to intervene to call both the government representative and union leaders to the negotiating table and break the deadlock immediately. The conflicting parties have no right to make the common men suffer.

M. Jeevanand

Secunderabad

The strike by TSRTC workers is inhuman. There are millions of unemployed youth. The government should terminate these employees and appoint young people. The drivers and conductors do not deserve any reconciliation because their daily output is less than their wages: They do not stop the buses at stops; they use mobile phones while on duty; they talk in foul language with passengers. These thugs do not require government service. John Lukose Hyderabad

Rather than RTC bosses talking to the sacked employees, the political establishment must make a beeline to the unions so as to placate the disgruntled employees. RTC has become a cornerstone of transport and more often than not the employees are highly professional. Hence it is in the best interests of the state that not the bosses but political establishment take time out to reconciliate the workers.

D. Jayant Ratna

Hyderabad