ALL PAKISTAN WAPDA HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION
Hundreds of Electricity Grid Staff took out procession to-day 9th
May,2014 under the auspices
of ALL PAKISTAN WAPDA HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION C.B.A. from Bakhtiar Labour Hall, Lahore to protest against Price
Hike of essential Commodities and proposed move of the Government to privatize national
public utility Electricity and demanding to the Prime Minister of Pakistan to increase the
Wages and Salaries as well as the Pension of the Workers engaged in Government & Semi
Government and Autonomous Bodies and Private Sector at least 30% of their basic pay in
the forth coming Federal Budget. The Procession was led by Veteran Trade Union Leader Mr. Kurshid
Ahmed General Secretary of the Union alongwith
Ch. Muhammad Akram, Malik saeed, Zakir Ali Shah, Sibet-e-Hassan, Osama Tariq Secretary of P.W.C and other representatives of
the Union. The workers were carrying banners
in support of their demands and raising slogans against Price Hike and
accepting their demands including
increase of their Wages and grant of Danger Allowance to the Grid Staff alike Line Staff for performing hazardous
nature of their official duties at the risk of their lives. The workers held a Protest Rally at Luxmi Chowk in support
of their demands and passed a
resolution urging the PEPCO management to up-grade of the Pay Scale of remaining Staff of Grid Stations and welcomed the
decision to grant BPS-14 & 15 to SSO.II and SSO.I, AFM and Foreman , Line
Superintendent Grade-ll and Grade-l as a result of the settlement reached between the union and with PEPCO
management on its Charter of Demands.
By Osama Tariq - Bukthar Labour
Hall 28 Nisbet Road Lahore Pakistan pwf@brain.net.pk
