HYDERABAD: Workers remind parties of pre-poll promises
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Feb 26: The Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Workers Federation (PWF) has called upon political parties to fulfil the promises made to the federation during election campaign.
The federation at its general body meeting held on Monday adopted a resolution urging the political parties to fulfil their promises and demanding repeal of anti-workers Ordinance 2000 and IRO-2002 and reopening of all the closed industrial units.
The PWF General Secretary Abdul Latif Nizamani said that federation would form its district, youth and women committees throughout the interior province within a month.
The federation’s president Mir Khan Baloch and office-bearers Mehboob Qureshi, Iqbal Kaimkhani and Malik Sultan spoke at the meeting, which was attended by a large number of workers’ representatives from Sukkur, Nawabshah, Sanghar, Tando Adam, Dadu and other districts of interior Sindh.
They discussed in detail the problems confronting the working class, registration of trade unions, appointment of district committees, youth wing and women wing committees.
PLB: The Sindh chapter of the People’s Labour Bureau said on Tue4sday the victory of the Pakistan People’s Party in general elections was the victory of working class because the PPP government would solve the workers’ problems.
In a joint statement, the bureau’s senior vice-president, Lal Bux Kalhoro, and office-bearers Sagheer Ahmed Rajput and Ali Nawaz Soomro said that the IRO-2002 would be repealed and the ban on trade unions would be lifted.
They said that lockouts in industrial units, forced retirement of workers, contract system and child labour would be abolished and the workers whose services had been terminated on political grounds would be reinstated.
