Pending salary: 108 ambulance staff to go on a strike today

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The healthcare personnel of Suvarna Karnataka Arogya Kavacha Emergency Ambulance (108 ambulance) Service are set to go on a mass strike from Monday.

Vice-president of the 108 Ambulance Employees Association, Dayanand said that the union has planned to go on a state-wide strike due to which the service will be suspended from 8 pm onwards.

Dayanand said that the healthcare workers have not been paid salaries for the last three months.

“The protest is against the state government and the GVK Institute for holding the employees’ salaries,” he said.

It is being said that the Institute had paid only Rs 13,000 to the employees for the month of December and January, after heavy deductions.

The salaries for the months of February, March and April are still due. The Association has urged the state government to clear the salary dues at the earliest and also call a meeting to resolve other problems concerning the healthcare works.

“If they fail to take immediate action, we will be forced to continue the agitating,” Dayanand added.