HYDERABAD: The Wapda workers, under the aegis of All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA), have taken out rallies and protested before all the offices, workshops and other installations of power utilities across the province.
The workers staged protest demonstrations as part of their nationwide protest against government’s moves to privatise the companies. Power utilities’ employees, including the officers cadre, observed a strike and joined in the protests.
In Hyderabad, CBA president Abdul Latif Nizamani led a procession taken out from Labour Hall in Gari Khata and spoke to the participants when they converged on the local press club to hold a public meeting. He contradicted the government’s claim that loss-making institutions were being privatised, arguing that private finance advisers and other senior executives were being hired for major power utilities in Islamabad and Lahore, as well as other cities, on hefty perks because they are highly profitable organisations.
CBA Sindh general secretary Iqbal Ahmed Qaimkhani and other labour leaders also spoke.Speaking to the protesters, their local leaders alleged that whenever the PML-N came to power, it pursued an anti-workers policy. They vowed to resist tooth and nail if the government tried to impose it on them.
