Job security: WAPDA employees protest against privatisation

SUKKUR:

Hundreds of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) employees carrying placards and banners organised a rally on Monday shouting anti-government slogans and staged a sit-in at Minara Road.

The employees have started a five-day protest throughout upper Sindh against the government's decision to privatise Wapda. On this occasion, the union leaders condemned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government for its anti-labour policies and vowed to resist its privatisation policy till the government is forced to shelve it once and for all.

Speaking to The Express Tribune, Wapda Hydro Labour Union regional secretary Wali Muhammad Laghari said that more than 100,000 people work for Wapda. Privatisation will render them jobless, he claimed.

Earlier, the government privatised K-Electric and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited and everybody knows about the performance of both the companies, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2015.