TOBA TEK SINGH: Deadlock continued between powerloom workers and owners over increasing wages of workers in accordance with a notification of the government and not only strike of the workers continued on the seventh day on Monday but scores of workers, their women and children also continued their sit-in on Jhang Road in Faisalabad at Airport Chowk.

Traffic was diverted to link roads of rural areas of Faisalabad city to Jhang Road.

Those who visited the sit-in to show solidarity with the workers in the last two days included a Jamaat Islami delegation, led by emir Mahboob Zaman Butt, and Rana Adnan Khan, PTI MPA Jehanzeb Imtiaz Gill, Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party delegation, led by Comrade Irfan Ahmad, powerloom workers delegations from Jhang and Toba and different progressive activists and trade union leaders.

A group of enthusiast children of the workers sang revolutionary songs and chanted slogans against the owners on Sunday and Monday.

The Civil Aviation Authority chief operating officer had written a letter to the Faisalabad deputy commissioner and the police to get clear the road from Airport Chowk, which had been blocked by the powerloom workers by staging a sit-in for the last six days and as a result passengers were facing hardship to go to the airport.

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2022