Fed up: LG employees to take to streets from Dec 9

Will halt municipal services for indefinite period, says union president

SWABI: Local Government Employees Federation (LGEF), a labour union, has announced it will start demonstrations from December 9 across the province to press for their demands.

While addressing a meeting in Swabi, LGEF provincial president Haji Anwar Kamal said authorities have turned a deaf ear to the demands of local government employees who have been protesting for the past week. LGEF provincial chairman Haji Iqbal Hussain, general secretary Shad Khan and other officials were also present on the occasion.



Kamal added the protesters had even suspended municipal services in different areas but “the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led (PTI) government has no time to address their concerns”.

Kamal said employees are irked by the late payment of salaries, stalled promotions, discrimination and a lack of service structure. He urged the government to regularise temporary employment contracts, adding all the demands are based on basic labour rights.

He added the federation is left with no option but to launch full-scale protests on both the division and district level across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The union president said demonstrations will continue until all their concerns are addressed and threatened to stall municipal services in the province for an indefinite period.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 8^th, 2014.