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150 thousand workers of Electricity Power Wing and WAPDA observed protest day all over the country on 5 March, 2014 under the aegis of "ALL PAKISTAN
WAPDA HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION" C.B.A Against the proposed Privatization of National Public Utility
Electricity .The workers took out mass procession and held rallies in all
the major cities including Peshawar, Multan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala,
Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Sukkur,
Hyderabad and other cities.
150 thousand workers of Electricity Power Wing and WAPDA observed protest day all over the country on 5 March, 2014 under the aegis of "ALL PAKISTAN
WAPDA HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION" C.B.A Against the proposed Privatization of National Public Utility
Electricity .The workers took out mass procession and held rallies in all
the major cities including Peshawar, Multan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala,
Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Sukkur,
Hyderabad and other cities.
At Lahore, thousands of workers took out
large procession carrying banners against "PRIVATIZATION AND TERRORISM" in the
country and Price hike and aggravating unemployment and chanting slogan against
anti-People policies of the World Bank and I.M.F
and the Privatization and reached Lahore Press Club Square and held a mass
Rally. Speaking at the occasion, Veteran Trade Union leader Mr. Khsurshid Ahmed
General Secretary of PAKISTAN WORKERS CONFEDERATION declared that retrogressive
economic and social policies of the Government
allowing rich to be richer and poor to be poorer and spending almost 12
Billion U.S. Dollars hard earned
remittance of Pakistani's Expatriates was being drained out to Debit Services
of Heavy Loans of I.M.F. and The World Bank while Capitalists and Feudal Lords
and Law Makers had been made Scot Free from Tax Paying whereas 80% wage earners were Tax Payers . He
reminded the Government that Father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam had Declared that the national public
utilities and heavy Industries would remain under the public sector whereas the
flawed policies of the Successive Government with their undue political
interference had made the profitable public sector entities alike Electricity, Railway, P.I.A. Pakistan Steel Mills loss making. He pointed out that Hydel
Power Station WAPDA and Gas Fired Thermal Power Station of Electricity Power Wing
had been generating Electricity at Rs. 1.50
and Rs. 6 per unit whereas the cost of Electricity from Thermal Private & Rental
Power Houses had been costing Rs. 16
& 24 per unit. He vehemently demanded to the Prime Minister and Federal
Minister Finance & Federal
Minister Water & Power to hold dialogue on this vital national issue in the
Parliament and Senate and the representatives
of Civil Society and Workers organization otherwise, the workers would be
compelled to march at Islamabad on
11 March, 2014.
At this occasion the Rally was also address
by Akbar Ali Khan General Secretary National Bank of Pakistan employees union ,
Rana Abdul Shakoor, Zakir Ali Shah, Sajid Kazmi, Ch. Maqsood Ahmed, Haji
Muhammad Younus representatives of ALL PAKISTAN WAPDA HYDRO
ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION C.B.A. The large number of the representatives and members of Power Engineering
Association also participated in order to demonstrate their solidarity against Proposed Privatization. The rally
condemned barbaric attack in the Islamabad Court upon Legal Community and Additional Judge and declared it crime
against humanity. It also urged the Prime Minister to raise Old Age Pension and revive the Medical facilities of
industrial workers on their superannuation and get implemented Working Journalists Wage Board Award.
Advice from - Secretary Information
All Pakistan Wapda
Hydro Electric Workers Union CBA
Bukhtiar Labour
Hall 28 Nisbet Road Lahore. 0333-4276811
