Employees of the Pakistan Telecommunication company Ltd (PTCL) continued their strike on Tuesday and threatened to switch off the entire telecommunication system from June 6 if their demands were not met. All the PTCL offices, including telephones exchanges, customer service centres and revenue offices were locked and the protesting workers did not allow any officer to enter the premises.
Subscribers had to suffer more because there was no arrangement for rectifying the faults and installation of new telephone connections.
In this regard, a protest demonstration, led by Kanwar Ata Jilani, Saif-uddin Qureshi, Malik Nazar Hussain, Abdul Ghaffar Nadeem, Rashid Baig, M Naeem Chaudhry, Muhammad Hanif, Shahid Hussain, Younas Bhatti, Rab Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Aslam Khan Babar and others, was staged by more than 500 workers on LMQ road and chanted slogans against the Federal Minister for Information Technology.
A group of trade unionists also visited Mumtazabad Industrial Estate, Gulgasht Colony, New Multan and General Manager office to shut their offices.
The PTCL employees could not draw their salaries for the month of May because accounts clerks could not prepare the salary bills due to strike and union leaders did not let them enter their offices.
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