KARACHI, June 10: Pakistan Railway Worker Inqilabi Union has said that raise in salary should be given to the workers and facilities that had been withdrawn should be also restored.

Speaking at a workers meeting at the Karachi City grounds on Sunday evening, labour leaders said that keeping in view the ever-increasing inflation, raise should be given to the workers and pensions of the retired workers be revised.

Criticizing the PR management, they said that railways fares had been revised upwardly in the past couple of years owing to which the railways was coming out of the deficit but the management had not improved the quality of service.

They demanded that sacking of workers under the garb of downsizing and right-sizing should be stopped, stalls on the railway stations be allotted to the retired workers and the widows of the workers; and the conditions of railway schools and hospitals be improved.

Union chief Manzoor Razi, leaders of Sindh Ghulam A. Butt, Ghulam Sarwar, Arif Mashwani, Sher M. Burero, Gulfam Ahmad and others also spoke.

REINSTATEMENT URGED: Pearl Continental Hotel Workers (CBA) Union has urged the authorities to intervene and stop the management from sacking the workers.

Union leaders Mohammad Nasir and Ghulam Mahboob said that the management had sacked nine workers, some of them had been working for the hotel for over a quarter of a century.