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Electricity/Wapda Workers observed "Protest Day" all over the country on 3rd August 2016 under the aegis of All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) by holding Processions and Rallies in support of their demands at Peshawar, Sawat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Quetta and other cities.
Electricity/Wapda Workers observed "Protest Day" all over the country on 3rd August 2016 under the aegis of All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) by holding Processions and Rallies in support of their demands at Peshawar, Sawat, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Quetta and other cities.
At Lahore hundreds of workers took out procession from Bakhtiar Labour Hall Lahore and held a mass Rally
in front of Lahore Press Club Square led by Veteran Trade Union Leader Khurshid
Ahmed General Secretary of the Union and accompanied by Haji Muhammad Younis, Rana Muhammad Akram, Muzafar Muteen, Ch. Maqsood
Ahmad, Rana Abdul Shakoor of the Union and Osama Tariq, Secretary, All Pakistan Workers
Confederation (Regd) and others.
The works demanded to the
Federal Government and management
of the Distribution Electricity Companies to get stopped tragic accident of the
lines staff at workplace and get ensured to raise the pay scales of technical
and professional and skilled and semi-skilled staff alike ministerial
staff.
The workers were carrying banners in support of
their demands and National Flag. Speaking at the occasion veteran Trade Union Leader Mr.
Khurshid Ahmed, General Secretary of the union demanded to the Federal and Provincial
Governments and Management of Electricity Distribution Companies to intervene to prevent tragic accidents of Line Staff, as almost 126 members of the lines staff had
died and far more become disable on account of electrocution during the year , and demanded to ensure Safe
Working Conditions to the Elecy. Workers. In order to save their lives and
health and extend all support for the
welfare of their orphan children including provision of free education and
their employment and the housing facilities for those families and
demanded to the Prime Minister of Pakistan to allocate adequate resources for building new hydel power
stations and water dams to overcome load shedding and
cheaper hydel electricity and
provide basic needs of water for the citizens and national agriculture.
By a resolution passed in the Rally, demanded to
the electricity/wapda management to raise the pay scales of Technical and
Skilled, Semi-skilled and professional workers alike
ministerial staff since they perform far more hazardous nature of the work at
the risks of their lives throughout the service.
It was appealed all the political parties and patriotic forces to evolve National Plan of Action to
overcome rising unemployment of the youth and aggravating poverty and irrigational gap between the rich and poor and
abolishing Child & Bonded Labour and discrimination against women in the Society and Promote Equality
and Fraternity & Democracy and Social Justice .
Osama Tariq
All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union CBA
Bukhtiar Labour Hall 28 Nisbet Road Lahore.
