Over 30,000 Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) employees, including bus drivers and conductors, will go on an indefinite strike from Monday midnight. The demandsShashank Rao, president of the BEST workers’ union, said they wanted their demands fulfilled, and not mere assurances. On August 7, 2017, the BEST employees had gone on strike for a day. From December last year, the BEST workers have been threatening to again go on a strike. In a vote taken by the workers’ union in mid-December, a majority of BEST employees voted in favour for a strike in January.

Source: The Hindu January 06, 2019 19:30 UTC