108 ambulance employees to hold stir

Madurai: The Tamil Nadu 108 Ambulance employees’ welfare association is set to hold a protest in Coimbatore on January 13 and later at the Secretariat in Chennai against poor treatment and forced transfers of workers. The association will also be submitting a petition to the Coimbatore district collector on Thursday.
The association planned to hold the protest after the alleged forced transfer of employees by GVK EMRI, the largest professional emergency provider in India, which operates on a public-private partnership mode.“GVK EMRI was not ready to listen to our demands from the start. Further, employees were transferred randomly across the state citing shortage of staff. Employees are being pulled up for violating media policy just because we spoke about submitting a petition to the Coimbatore district collector with demands for improving working conditions,” said M Irulandi, the association’s state president. He said that if their demands are not met, they will be intensifying their protest by holding a demonstration outside Secretariat in Chennai.tnn