NAWABSHAH, July 20: The Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Union (CBA) on Sunday threatened to jam telecommunications system across the country if the employees’ demands were not accepted in three days.

Talking to journalists at PTCL union office, CBA chairman Zulfiqar Ali Sangi and president Ziauddin said that the PTCL had not raised salaries since 2001. They were being paid as per revised pay scales of 2005, 2007 and 2008 with house rent allowance, they said.

They said that the workers put locks on PTCL offices to press the company for accepting their demands but they had not so far been accepted.

To a question, they said that the employees had rejected the unified pay scale and forced the management to take it back through their agitation.

They criticised the four-member committee constituted by the prime minister and said the committee had not so far contacted the PTEU, which showed the government was not serious in accepting their legal demands.