‘KESC to resolve issues with workers legally’
Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) CEO Tabish Gauhar said that the issues faced by the citizens would be resolved through negotiations with the workers’ union in a legal manner.
He was speaking at a meeting with Muttahida Qaumi Movement Rabita Committee members.
“The government needs to implement the law as far as destruction of the distribution system, and repairs are concerned. We have made it clear to the union that our foremost priority is to normalise the power supply system,” Gauhar said. MPA Khwaja Izharul Hassan, who is also the adviser to the chief minister, asked him, “If only 15,000 workers were on strike, then why aren’t the rest of the workers resolving the peoples’ complaints?” He regretted that despite negotiations between the management and the workers, violent attacks on the utility’s offices and harassment of employees have not stopped. Hassan promised they would raise these issues with federal minister Rehman Malik.
Talking to The Express Tribune, union president Akhlaq Ahmed said that a delegation of workers’ representatives met a four-member negotiating committee of the KESC, headed by Zulfiqar Ali Haider.
The meetings were held on Monday and Tuesday and the workers submitted two points before the management. Firstly, the KESC should take back the workers on duty and end the surplus pool, and secondly, the management should end illegal actions against the workers and should form an investigative committee to investigate the management’s allegations against the union.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2011.
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