22 lakh Maha govt employees to go on strike from Aug 4
Press Trust of India / Mumbai Aug 02, 2009, 18:38 IST
Nearly 22 lakh state government staff including secondary school teachers, junior college teachers, non-teaching staff will go on indefinite strike from August 4 demanding the implementation of 6th Pay Commission, Maharashtriya Rajya Sarkari Madhyavarghi Sangatna (MRSMS) said.
Already over 30,000 University and college teachers are on indefinite 'cease work' strike since July 14 asking for the implementation of 6th Pay Commission and solution for other demands in writing.
The state government employees and secondary school and junior college teachers will be on strike under the banner of MRSMS, the convenor R G Karnik said.
The Coordination committee of teachers organisations, Bombay (CCTOB) said that the government attacked the teachers and government employees by its GR of May 13, 2009.
"Although new scales have been announced, all of us stand to lose heavily because HRA (house rent allowance), CLA and transport allowance will now be calculated on the basis of old scales and each teacher/staff will be losing upto tens of thousands of rupees on this account every year," CCTOB said.
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