The All Pakistan Clerks Association on Thursday observed a pen down strike and locked government offices across the city to protest what they called were measly raises announced for them in the federal and provincial budgets. APCA members held meetings and staged demonstrations to press the government to raise their salaries.
APCA General Secretary Chaudhry Khalid Javed Sangherra said the raises announced for them were “peanuts”. He said the APCA would remain on a strike until their demands were met. He said the clerks would march to the capital on June 30 if substantial salary raises were not announced for them. Earlier, the APCA had held a protest demonstration at the Directorate of Education. Addressing the protesters, APCA Education Wing president Muhammad Nadeem Khan said the government had developed an apathetic attitude towards public servants. The protesters, carrying banners and placards, marched from the offices of the Education Directorate to Bosan Road. The protesters said if the government did not revise pay scales of government employees, enhance their salaries and regularise services of daily wage workers, the APCA would launch a country-wide protest.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2015.
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