The employees of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) will stage sit-ins in front of their offices across the country on Thursday February 7 to pressurize the government to acceptance their demands of increasing their take home monetary stipends.
Pakistan WAPDA Employees Paigham Union President Sirajuddin Saqib, said that a 138-point charter of demands had already been presented to the Managing Director of Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO). He said the demands included up gradation of the posts of line men, stenographers and others, introduction of a promotion policy ensuring promotion of employees after every five years, payment of two Eid bonuses annually to the employees and special bonuses to non-Muslim employees. CBA Zonal Chairman Sabir Ali Shah and Syed Ashfaq Hussain Sherazi said that the their protest would continue till accepatnce of demands.