Orissa Court October 1970 Judgments

Employees of State Transport Service and of Orissa Road Transport Co., ...

Court: Orissa

Reported in: (1971)IILLJ142Ori

G.K. Misra, C.J.1. The State Transport Service, Cuttack, is an organisation run and managed by the Government of Orissa through the Transport Department. It carries on the activities, inter alia, of transporting public and private goods. The Orissa Road Transport Co. Ltd. is a Government company carrying on identical activities as that of the State Transport Service. The employees of both the said undertakings, who are workmen within the meaning of Section 2(s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter to be referred to as the Act), have organised themselves into a Union known as All Orissa Motor Transport Employees' Federation. It is formed and registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926. On 7th of August, 1968, the General Secretary of the Federation submitted a charter of demands (Annexure 1) to the Secretary to the Government of Orissa, Transport Department, Bhubaneswar, and also to the Director-in-charge, Orissa Road Transport Co. Ltd., Cuttack.The charter of demand...