Workers decry privatisation of garbage-lifting

They demanded that the workers would be allowed to form the employees union according to the country laws. They further asked the government to ensure the continuation of jobs and facilities of sanitation workers and other related employees..

They warned that they would compel to widen their protest if their demands were not met. They said that in this connection as a first step they would stop sanitation work in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Saddar, Jamshed and Liquatabad towns from August 28, 2008 as a token of protest.

LPP condemns sacking

of 1200 workers

Labour Party Pakistan has strongly condemned sacking of 1200 workers from Ghafforiya Garments and demanded their immediate restoration.

In a statement on Tuesday, Secretary General Labour Party Abdul Salam claimed that around 40 workers were forcibly sacked from the factory on early Monday, as a result their colleagues staged demonstration along with the sacked workers, who were also sacked by the administration.

He said that around 1200 sacked employees staged a sit-in in front of the factory gate where they were baton-charged and tear-gassed by the police. Police also arrested 20 workers, he added.

He demanded that the sacked workers should be immediately restored.