LAHORE: A large number of Railway Workers Union (CBA-Workshop) and Railway Diploma Holder Federation members held a protest in front of the Railway Carriage and Wagon Workshop here on Thursday, announcing that they will hold a larger protest in front of the Railway Headquarters on March 7th. The rally demonstrated the growing unity of workers with a single point agenda to ascertain basic wage rights, service structure and worker dignity. The public gathering was addressed by railway workers union leaders, Sakhi Khan, Ashiq Jehangiri, Mustesehen Javaid, Khursheed Awan, and Diploma Holder Federation’s Ghulam Muhammed and Liaquat Nangania. He said that thirty years of empty promises had led to the unity of railway unions and associations. He lamented that railway workers had a history of struggling against dictatorship and had also been central in the struggle for basic worker rights.

Source: Pakistan Today February 22, 2018 17:48 UTC