MARDAN, Oct 9: The Bhatta Khasht and Bonded labour Union (BKBLU) has threatened kiln owners that if workers’ wages are not increased they will stop work after Eidul Fitr.

A meeting of the BKBLU, presided over by its provincial Vice-President Haji Inam, reviewed the ill-treatment and bad behaviour of the kiln-owners.

The meeting criticized the owners and said that they were still giving the wages of 1998 when the price of bricks were Rs13,00 per 1,000 but now they were selling the item at the rate of Rs3000 per 1,000 brick in the market.

Haji Inam warned the owners that if they did not increase the wages the union would give a call for strike against the injustice of the owners.

He claimed that there are 30,000-registered labourers in the North-West Frontier Province but more than 25 million other people would be affected if they stop work.