HYDERABAD, April 22: The Sindh committee of the Pakistan Workers’ Confederation, at a meeting held here on Monday, demanded implementation of minimum wages of Rs2,500 per month, payment of salaries to the local bodies’ employees on time, and regularization of the temporary employees.
The meeting, which was presided over by Maula Bux Khaskheli, adopted several resolutions.
The meeting demanded that 2,500 workers of Indus Jute Mills, Dhabeji, should be reinstated, 16 factories, which were lying closed in Dhabeji, should be reactivated, labour leader Aziz Memon should be released forthwith and proprietary rights of the kutcha abadis in the cantonment areas should be given to the occupants.
It further demanded that the ban on various trade unions should be lifted and the privatization of the Pak-Saudi Arabia Fertilizer Company and the liquidation of Shahdadkot Textile Mills should be revoked.
The meeting also decided to commemorate the International Workers Day on May 1 in a befitting manner. It decided to bring out workers’ rallies in the city.
It was also decided to hold the election of the office-bearers of the Sindh committee through secret ballot at the Wapda Labour Hall on May 26.
DUES DEMANDED: The former employees of the SRTC staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Monday against the nonpayment of their dues.
Speaking on the occasion, the office-bearers of the Former SRTC Employees Action Committee, Syed Ahmed Ali Shah, Harison David and Syed Irshad Ali Shah said that someworkers had been observing token hunger strike for the last 50 days and the hunger strike unto death by two workers had entered the 13th day but the government was not taking any notice of the miseries of the former employees.
They said that the government had tricked the workers to accept the golden handshake scheme which had rendered the workers jobless who were not being paid even their legal dues.
They said that the rulers were never tired of talking about the golden principles of Islam but they never tried to implement these principles.
They warned that so far the workers had remained peaceful but their patience had been exhausted and they could resort to extreme steps.
