Workers demand 30% raise

By Our Correspondent
May 28, 2025
Representational image shows protest organised by Pakistan Labour National Movement against environmental destruction, rising inflation and exorbitant increase in electricity bills started in Lahore seen in this image released on September 16, 2024. — Facebook/@apmddpakistan
Representational image shows protest organised by Pakistan Labour National Movement against environmental destruction, rising inflation and exorbitant increase in electricity bills started in Lahore seen in this image released on September 16, 2024. — Facebook/@apmddpakistan

LAHORE:General Secretary of the All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions (APFTU), Khurshid Ahmad, urged federal and provincial governments to ensure a 30 percent increase in wages for workers in public and private sectors, including media houses, to match inflation. At a press conference held at Bakhtiar Labour Hall, he demanded a raise in pensions, setting the minimum wage for semi-skilled workers at Rs50,000 and EOBI pensions at Rs40,000. He also called for improved workplace safety, a halt to privatisation of profitable public enterprises, swift construction of hydel dams, and promotion of technical education and home-based industries.