Hyderabad (HRNW)- The government should ensure a 100 percent increase in the salaries and pensions of federal, provincial, industrial and private employees in the budget presented for the financial year 2025-26. It should make essential commodities affordable and accessible to the public by reducing taxes. Instead of privatizing national institutions like WAPDA, Railways, PIA, educational and health institutions, it should reform them and provide quality facilities to the public. Vacancies in all other institutions including WAPDA should be filled. National institutions should be strengthened by making employees recruited on contract, daily wages, part-time, and fixed packages permanent. It should provide recruitment to the widows and children of employees who died during service. The ban on NADRA unions should be lifted and forcibly dismissed employees should be reinstated. These demands were presented by the central leaders of various trade unions in their speeches at the labor conference organized by the All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA), All Pakistan NADRA Employees Restoration Movement, All Pakistan Clerks Association, and All Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions regarding the pre-budget 2025-26 at Labor Hall Hyderabad. The conference was presided over by the Central President of Wapda (CBA) Union, Abdul Latif Nizamani, while other distinguished guests included APCA Central Secretary Asad Durrani, PTUDC Provincial President Anwar Panhwar, WAPDA Union Provincial Secretary Iqbal Ahmed Khan, HDA Mehran Workers Union’s Amiruddin Solangi, NADRA Restoration Movement’s Raza Khan Swati, Ashraf Bozai, Pervez Baloch, and Kewal Ram, Azam Khan, Muhammad Hanif Khan, Ghulam Rasool Memon, Esal Dars, and Abid Shah. Addressing the labor conference, the speakers further said that on the one hand, the government has increased the salaries and benefits of its national/provincial and Senate members by 300%, but when it comes to increasing the salaries of the workers who run the country, we are made subject to the permission of the IMF, which is a clear contradiction with us, which we condemn. We demand that inflation be stopped by reducing tax rates and that the salaries and pensions of all federal, provincial, industrial and private employees be increased by 100%. Recruitments should be opened, privatization of national institutions and anti-labor laws should be abolished. So far, about 750 institutions have been auctioned, destroying institutions and making workers unemployed. The pending salaries and pensions of HDA employees should be released before Eid. If our legitimate demands are not included in the budget, all unions will protest against the budget and reject it. The labor leaders also emphasized that at least all the labor movements of Hyderabad should come together on a platform and fight for their rights as equals so that our voice becomes national and powerful and cannot be suppressed. Only then will we be able to achieve success. For this, we will need practical struggle. Not only leadership should be given importance, but we should strengthen the unity by giving priority to the labor cause. On this occasion, other demands including the recovery of Abdul Aziz Nizamani, the young grandson of WAPDA CBA Union Central President Abdul Latif Nizamani, were also presented. Later, the conference protest rally was taken out to Haider Chowk in which the protesters raised strong slogans regarding their demands. Other representatives present at the conference included Ghulam Nabi Khoso, Shafiq Babu, Hamid KK, Shamimuddin, Akram Khan, Syed Waqas, Mehrullah Khan, Ahsan Khan, Sajid Qaimkhani, Sajjad Qaimkhani, Iqrar Phanur, Madad Ali, Asif Zaheer, Kashif Siddiqui, Muhammad Ali, Zahid Hussain Khoso, Ali Muhammad Khanzada, Muzaffar Qureshi, Riaz Ahmed, Ashraf Ali, and Faisal KK.
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