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HYDERABAD, July 13: The secretary general, Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union, Khursheed Ahmed, has said that the government was trying to usurp the rights of the workers through ordinances and the bureaucrats were committing the economic murder of the poor workers taking refuge behind these ordinances.
He was speaking at a workers meeting at the Labour Hall, Gari Khata, here on Sunday.
He said the workers will have to unite on one platform to struggle against these anti-workers’ ordinances.
He said that he, along with the president of Wapda Union, had met with Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali a few days back who had offered his full cooperation in resolving the problems of the workers.
He said he had met with the chief executive, Hesco, and discussed with him the workers’ problems.
He said he had demanded that the Hesco should introduce police system to discourage power theft and the power thieves should be awarded punishments, including penalty on the spot, to protect the life and self-respect of Hesco employees.
He said a charter of demands had been served on Wapda to regularize the services of contract employees, and added that practical steps were being taken for the grant of house rent for the powerhouse employees and generation and hardship allowance for grade-10 to grade-16 employees.
Speaking on the occasion, the president of the Hydro Union (CBA), Abdul Latif Nizamani, also criticised the promulgation of anti-workers’ ordinances.
He said that when Wapda had framed its own rules and regulations for the workers, there was no need for the promulgation of black ordinances.
He termed the Industrial Relations Ordinance (IRO) 2002 a black law.
He said the looters and plunderers of national wealth had deserted the country and instead of recovering the looted amount from them, the poor workers were being victimized.
The others who spoke on the occasion included Iqbal Qaimkhani, the Nazim of Latifabad Taluka, Abdul Jabbar Khan, Mumtaz Baig, Aslam Soomro and others.
A large number of Hesco employees attended the meeting.
NLF: The National Labour Federation, Hyderabad Zone, has accused the director, Social Security, Hyderabad, of malpractices saying that hundreds of workers of the bangle industry had not been provided social security cover.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, the zonal president of the federation, Mohammad Hanif Khanzada, and its general secretary, Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh, said that the bona fide of hundreds of bangle industry workers had been established, yet they had been denied the social security cover by the director, Social Security, who was in league with the factory owners.
They demanded that an enquiry should be held against the director, Social Security, Hyderabad.
DEMO: The activists of the Insan Dost Tehrik, Hyderabad, held a protest demonstration outside the press club on Sunday to protest against the attack on the Pakistan Embassy in Afghanistan.
They carried banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the Afghan government.
Speaking on the occasion, the chairman of the Tehrik, Naeem Noorani; its secretary general, Arif Qaimkhani; its joint secretary, Zaheer Ansari; and others said that the attack on Pakistan’s Embassy was tantamount to an attack on Pakistan itself.
They said that due to the corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy, NADRA had issued national identity cards to thousands of Afghan deserters, while millions of Pakistanis were waiting for the same.
They said that these Afghanis travelled abroad on Pakistani passports and were engaged in the business of trafficking drugs.
Inside Pakistan, they said, these Afghanis were involved in terrorist activities and sectarian riots, which had brought Pakistan a bad name.
They demanded that the president, prime minister and interior minister immediately expel all Afghanis from Pakistan and sever diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.
