KARACHI: Workers of Karachi Port’s South Asia Terminal who were on strike from Monday evening called off their strike at 12:00pm today (Tuesday) after successful negotiations.
Sources told Customs Today that due to strike fright-loaded ships anchored at the terminal have not been offloaded. The protesters were of the view that they would call off the strike when the demands of the workers’ union will met and sacked employees will be reinstated.
According to some reports operations of the terminal were suspended from Monday as the strike affected the entire port operation.
Talking with Customs Today Secretary of workers union Ghulam Abbass said that so many workers have terminated in last few months and the working hours are too long while the wages are low. The terminated workers are still unemployed. We demand that every terminated employ should be reinstated and accept our other demands as well. He said that few weeks ago, an incident occurred on the same terminal and two workers who were injured still not compensated.
He said that the port administration assured us that they will fulfill our demands so we decided to end our strike.
