Standing strong: FESCO workers’ strike continues
They chanted slogans against the government and urged the prime minister to reverse plans to sell the company.
FESCO workers are on a strike and there is no one here to hear our issues, says a customer. PHOTO: SHAHID BUKHARI/EXPESS
FAISALABAD:
Scores of employees of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) on Thursday protested against proposed privatisation of the company and boycotted work for the fourth day.
They gathered in front of the FESCO headquarters on Canal Road where they staged a sit-in.
They chanted slogans against the government and urged the prime minister to reverse plans to sell the company.
Addressing the workers, All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union regional secretary Chaudhary Sarfraz Ahmad Hundal said FESCO workers would not allow unilateral privatisation of the company.
Hundal said thousands of workers would be affected by privatisation. “They have a right to be heard and their concerns should be addressed,” he said. He said protests against privatisation would continue till the government rolled back its plans to sell the company.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2015.
Scores of employees of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) on Thursday protested against proposed privatisation of the company and boycotted work for the fourth day.
They gathered in front of the FESCO headquarters on Canal Road where they staged a sit-in.
They chanted slogans against the government and urged the prime minister to reverse plans to sell the company.
Addressing the workers, All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union regional secretary Chaudhary Sarfraz Ahmad Hundal said FESCO workers would not allow unilateral privatisation of the company.
Hundal said thousands of workers would be affected by privatisation. “They have a right to be heard and their concerns should be addressed,” he said. He said protests against privatisation would continue till the government rolled back its plans to sell the company.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2015.