Demanding cooperation: Dockworkers to go on strike against KPT
“We want the KPT to act on what it has promised to us,” said Gul Muhammad, the union president of the association.
KARACHI:
The dockworkers of Karachi Dock Labour Board will go on strike if the Karachi Port Trust’s (KPT) management fails to address the demands, which the management had already approved. “We want the KPT to act on what it has promised to us,” said Gul Muhammad, the union president of the association. “The rule says that the workers who die or fall ill would be replaced by their children but the KPT has stopped applying this for the past six months.” He demanded the KPT reinstate the rule or they would halt all the cargo-handling activities. The dockworkers have demanded the KPT to issue fresh tenders of the contract with a hospital as their contract with Ziauddin hospital had expired two years ago.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 21st, 2013.
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