Kesc protests : Workers union hold year-end presser

KARACHI: The labour unions of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) will organise the last rally of their year-long struggle against the KESC management for their Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS). According to the chairman of the labour union CBA, Akhlaq Ahmed, they started protests when the management dismissed 4,500 employees on January 19, who did not accept the VSS. The president took notice of the matter and formed a committee to solve it. The then provincial minister for power, Shazia Marri, ordered reinstatement of the sacked workers on January 23 but the KESC chief began to use other methods for getting rid of employees, said Ahmed. They held the salaries and some of them weren’t paid for six months when they were fired.  He was speaking at a press conference at the press club. He said that KESC management lodged fake FIRs against workers who took part in the protest.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30^th, 2011.