Pakistan : Wapda workers union rejects 10pc raise
HYDERABAD, June 10: Rejecting 10 per cent (pc) raise in salaries and pensions of government servants and industrial workers in the federal budget, All Pakistan Workers Confederation Sindh president Abdul Latif
Nizamani said on June 9 that the government must fix salaries and pensions according to inflation in the country to satisfy workers.
“The government wants to snatch even single loaf of chapati which is somehow available to the worker. It is utter injustice and a kind of cruelty,” he said, according to a handout.
He also said the government upgraded and revised pay scales of only clerks while workers of other cadres were deprived of the facility. Same facilities must be given to all workers without any discrimination, he demanded.
Published by Daily Dawn on June 10, 2016
