KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) administration has released more than Rs 20 million to a trade union, Super Peoples Unity, for putting up banners and billboards to welcome President Asif Ali Zardari at the inauguration ceremony of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Scheme today (Saturday).
The union’s president, Aamir Shah, who is not a PIA employee, was issued a daily wager card along with other 15 people by the national carrier on Friday and it is likely that he would be made a permanent employee on the president’s orders, sources told Pakistan Today.
The official collective bargaining agent (CBA) of the PIA named the People’s Unity and headed by Kamran Chaudhry, was taken over by the Aamir Shah-led Super People’s Unity three months ago.
As the official CBA has completed its tenure of two years, it is also a trade union and therefore, all PIA trade unions currently do not have CBA status.
