After an employee's husband assaulted a driver, cabbies went on a strike, leaving over 2,000 waiting employees of an IT major in the lurch
After an employee's husband assaulted a driver, cabbies went on a strike, leaving over 2,000 waiting employees of an IT major in the lurch
Over 2,000 IBM employees were stuck in their office at the Manyata Tech Park for over 10 hours, following a strike called up by the cabbies.
The reason for the strike being an employee's husband assaulted a driver when he had gone to pick her up for office on July 14.
Shankar, a driver with SS Travels that offers its service to the company, had gone to pick up Rubina, an employee of the firm, from her house on Tanny Road at 5 am.
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| Though no complaint was lodged, cops had to intervene to sort the issue out.u00a0Shankar, who was assaulted by the employee's husband. |
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After reaching her house, he called her up but she wasn't ready. Hence, he asked her to walk until the main road.Rubina then asked her husband to drop her on the main road, who got irritated for being disturbed. He went until the vehicle and abused Shankar, who in-turn asked Rubina to come on time.This infuriated the husband, who assaulted Shankar. Besides, he took him to his house, called his friends and thrashed him again.An injured Shankar went to the company office and told his colleagues about the incident. But when the cabbies asked Rubina about it, she refused to talk about it.u00a0As a result, the cab drivers decided to go on a strike in front of the main gate of the company premises. Shankar said, "Her house in relatively inside and it's not easy to take the vehicle there." He added that there were others employees too, who were waiting in the cab and he was assaulted in front of everyone, which was quite insulting.After several requests made by the employees, company management decided to avail services of other travel agencies. However, they were amazed to know that even other cabbies had joined the strike and refused to ply. The strike continued until 3 am today and ended only afteru00a0 an agreement with cabbies.u00a0They said that the authorities will arrange a meeting of both the parties and will make sure that no cabbie is ill-treated henceforth.Speaking to MiD DAY, a company official, said, "It was an unfortunate incident. But after we assured drivers that the guilty will be reprimanded, they agreed to end their strike."Head Constable Chandrappa N, said, "The conflict has been resolved now and the cabbies have finally agreed to drop the employees to their destinations."
