Employees’ unions to take part in agitation over unmet demands

District-level representatives of different employees and pensioners’ unions of Powercom/Transco held a meeting at Guru Arjun Dev Sarai here on Sunday . They decided to take part in the agitation announced by the organizations to press the government for implementing their current demands.

Representatives of the PSEB Employees’ Joint Forum, the Bijli Mulazm Ekta Manch, Punjab, the Junior Engineers Association, the Pensioners’ Welfare Federation, Powercom/Transco and other unions participated in the meeting.

State leader Gurpreet Singh Gandiwind, Sukhwinder Singh Chahal, Gurbhej Singh Dhillon, Amrik Singh Kang and Pooran Singh Marimegha addressed on the occasion.

Leaders of the unions took a serious note of the attitude of the state government and the management of the Powerom/Transco for not implementing their demands accepted during the meeting held on June 2 chaired by Punjab Power Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO and officials of the management.

They said despite the appeals made to the state government and the management for fulfilling the accepted demands, nothing has been done in this regard so for and to lodge their protest, employees have been holding work-to-rule agitation from June 25.

The leaders said to push for the implementation of the accepted demands, employees would hold a circle-level convention on July 18 in Tarn Taran and then they would organise a division-level demonstration in Patti, Bhikhiwind, Beas, Tarn Taran city and in sub-urban areas on July 24.

The leaders said employees would attend the state-level demonstration to be held in front of the Amritsar residence of Power Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO on July 27 in a big number and employees would organize a flag march in Amritsar on that day.

The leaders appealed to state government and the management of the Powercom /Transco for the implementation of the accepted demands without delay.