PTCL workers on Tuesday staged a big rally at the call of Pak-Telecom Employees Union (CBA) to protest against the proposed retrenchment of 31,000 employees by the management of Itesalat. The rally began from Central Telephone exchange, which terminated after a demonstration in front of Multan Press Club.
Kanwar Atta Jilani, Saif-uddin Qureshi, Qazi Mehmood, Malik Nazar Hussain, Haji Ghulam Mustafa and Zafar Baig addressed the rally.
They said that their struggle would continue till the withdrawal of the plan of retrenchment of workers particularly upper division, lower division clerks, technicians, telephone, teleprinter, telex operators, chowkidars and peons.
The protestors shouted slogans against the president, federal minister for IT & Telecom, and the government. They demanded immediate revision of their pay-scales, grant of 15 percent dearness allowance, 25 percent house requisition, restoration of son-quota, and granting 2.6 percent shares to the employees as per agreement signed at the time of privatisation of the company.