Pakistan Engineering Workers Union (PEWU) has demanded adequate compensation for the families and has also demanded jobs for the dependent of those firemen who died on Monday in a fire that erupted in a garment factory in Site area.
Fire on Monday destroyed a garment factory in the Site Industrial Area when the three-storey garment factory building collapsed killing four firemen and injuring scores of workers. The general secretary, Mirza Maqsood, president, Hanif Ramay, and finance secretary, Abdul Hamid Qadri, have condoled the death of workers and expressed their dismay over the attitude of the concerned people over the poor working condition in different industrial units.
They said that during the last two months this is the fourth and the most serious. Two days earlier, fire erupted in a pharmaceutical factory in Hub and claimed life of two workers. Earlier a boiler had burst in a factory in Site in which three workers died. In a recent similar incident at Nooriabad in cement factory six workers died.
They said that PEWU has been asking the government and the management of different factories to take steps to protect workers against mishaps but in vain. They have demanded of the government to pay compensation to the firemen and the others who died in different incidents as early as possible.
They have also demanded jobs for the dependent of the bereaved families. They have also asked the government to grant honour to the four firemen who died in the discharge of their duties.