HYDERABAD: Leaders of the All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) on Monday announced a three-day tool-down strike starting Tuesday (March 3) against the government plan to privatise all power utilities in the country.

“We are willing to hold negotiations with the government on issues relating to its privatisation policy but the latter seems not ready,” CBA president Abdul Latif Nizamani told a press conference at the local press club.

He said the CBA was now going to move the Supreme Court against plans to privatise power utilities in the country.

He noted that the government did not heed widespread and repeated protests by thousands of power utility workers over the past few months leaving the CBA with no option but to go for a tool-down strike.

Insisting that privatisation of power utilities was detrimental to the interests of their workers, he said if government believed this to be a false apprehension, it should sit with the CBA to convince it.

Published in Dawn March 3rd , 2015

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