HYDERABAD, Jan 11: Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union has threatened to launch a country-wide protest movement if allowances of workers at Jamshoro, Lakhra, Kotri, Guddu and Muzzafargarh were not restored and increments were not given to employees of grade 6 to grade 16.

In a joint statement issued here on Friday, the president of the union, Abdul Latif Nizamani and provincial leaders, including Abdul Waheed Pathan, Mohammad Iqbal Kaimkhani, Malik Sultan and Mir Khan Baloch, appealed to the president and the prime minister, the federal minister for water and power and the chairman Wapda to restore the hardship and generation allowances and granting annual increments.

They said that these allowances had been restored for the employees of Balochistan but the employees of Sindh were being meted out step-motherly treatment.

Condemning the discrimination against Sindh employees, the union leaders said that this had created a sense of deprivation among the employees in Sindh.