Tarbela power house union threatens strike
Claims deputy director administration has anti-employee attitude
Claims deputy director administration has anti-employee attitude. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
HARIPUR:
Some office bearers of a Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) union at the Tarbela power house on Wednesday threatened to go on strike, suspending power generation in the process, unless the authorities transfer a deputy director.
Addressing a news conference in Ghazi, members of the Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labor Union (WHECLU) alleged that Deputy Director Admin Niaz Sardar has been an obstacle to resolving a number of long-standing problems of Wapda employees
Demanding Sardar’s removal, WHECLU Regional Chairman Humayun Khan and General Secretary Iqbal Khan accused the deputy director of mismanagement and corruption causing unnecessary delays in appointments on quota for employees’ offspring, death quota, annual increments and pension cases.
The labour leaders further claimed that they had documentary evidence of the DDA’s alleged wrongdoings, showing that he appointed people who were neither included in the candidates’ list nor had they fulfilled the hiring criteria even as sons of retired employees and those who had died during duty were not appointed.
They claimed that a vast majority of workers at the Tarbela Power House had gone to court against Wapda after Sardar’s posting at the station in 2007 for his anti-workers attitude.
Humayun and Iqbal further accused Sardar of deliberately creating a situation against the employees, forcing them to stage a protest and suspending developmental work, including on the Tarbela fourth extension project.
The union leaders warned that unless the DDA was immediately transferred from the Tarbela Power House, they would stage a phased protest over three stages.
The first phase of the protest would include a meeting of the union followed by a procession and suspension of work, including power generation. The responsibility for any situation arising out of such a protest, they said, would lie squarely on Wapda.
Meanwhile, when approached for comments Sardar dismissed statements of the union leaders as mere allegations and a pack of lies, adding that it just mud-slinging and part of pressure tactics against him.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2017.
Some office bearers of a Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) union at the Tarbela power house on Wednesday threatened to go on strike, suspending power generation in the process, unless the authorities transfer a deputy director.
Addressing a news conference in Ghazi, members of the Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labor Union (WHECLU) alleged that Deputy Director Admin Niaz Sardar has been an obstacle to resolving a number of long-standing problems of Wapda employees
Demanding Sardar’s removal, WHECLU Regional Chairman Humayun Khan and General Secretary Iqbal Khan accused the deputy director of mismanagement and corruption causing unnecessary delays in appointments on quota for employees’ offspring, death quota, annual increments and pension cases.
The labour leaders further claimed that they had documentary evidence of the DDA’s alleged wrongdoings, showing that he appointed people who were neither included in the candidates’ list nor had they fulfilled the hiring criteria even as sons of retired employees and those who had died during duty were not appointed.
They claimed that a vast majority of workers at the Tarbela Power House had gone to court against Wapda after Sardar’s posting at the station in 2007 for his anti-workers attitude.
Humayun and Iqbal further accused Sardar of deliberately creating a situation against the employees, forcing them to stage a protest and suspending developmental work, including on the Tarbela fourth extension project.
The union leaders warned that unless the DDA was immediately transferred from the Tarbela Power House, they would stage a phased protest over three stages.
The first phase of the protest would include a meeting of the union followed by a procession and suspension of work, including power generation. The responsibility for any situation arising out of such a protest, they said, would lie squarely on Wapda.
Meanwhile, when approached for comments Sardar dismissed statements of the union leaders as mere allegations and a pack of lies, adding that it just mud-slinging and part of pressure tactics against him.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2017.