Industrial workers seek release of funds by 15th

TAKHTBHAI: Muttahida Mazdoor Union president Adam Khan on Sunday asked the Workers Welfare Fund and Workers Welfare Board to release funds for the dowry and death grants and scholarships for the children of labourers working in various mills and factories of the province.

Addressing the workers at Labour Colony here, Adam Khan, general secretary Rozi Khan, Mir Afzal Khan and others said that labourers and workers of Rahman Cotton Mills were faced with a plethora of problems owing to the prevalent price-hike of essential commodities and ever-rising inflation.

“The families of our industrial workers are facing starvation due to low wages and high inflation but Workers Welfare Fund and Workers Welfare Board are yet to release funds for the payment of grants for dowry, death and students’ scholarships,” Adam Khan said, adding that the two entities had now become white elephants, which were sucking the blood of poor industrial workers.

The workers’’ leaders threatened to move to Islamabad for holding a protest sit-in outside the Parliament House if the funds were not released by February 15.