PESHAWAR: The All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union has decided to observe a protest sit-in here on June 8 to press the government for accepting their demands regarding increase in salaries, different allowances and filling the vacancies in the Peshawar Electric Supply Company.

“As the prices of daily use commodities have increased manifold, the government should announce increase in our salaries to enable the employees to meet their routine expenditures,” union’s spokesman Gohar Ali said in a statement issued here on Sunday.

“Our central and provincial unions have time and again presented our demands to the federal government and relevant power distribution companies to fill the vacant seats at least to reduce the burden on the existing staff, but to no avail,” he added.

He said the existing staff was extremely overburdened, and as result, many linemen had lost lives or sustained serious injuries in the line of duty.

Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2021