Employees protest privatisation of postal department

MARDAN: The People’s Unity Postal Employees Union on Friday staged a protest against the privatization of the postal department.

All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) general secretary Aurangzeb Kashmiri, Qaiser Khan, former MPA Ravi Kumar, Shahbaz Khan, Khalid Khan, Zahoor Khan and others led the protest rally.

A large number of postal employees attended the rally outside the press club.The participants in the rally chanted slogans against the federal government and privatization of the postal department.

Later speaking at a news conference, the union leaders condemned the government decision of privatization of the postal department.The speakers said the government was not ending its luxuries but national institutions were being destroyed in the name of privatization. They said that privatization was being done with the connivance of the officers of the postal department.

They accused the officers of opening private couriers. They argued that the employees were being pressured to increase the revenue of the department. They speakers argued that if the postal department was at loss then why 7000 recruitments were made during the PDM government.

They added that over 40,000 employees of the postal department would lose jobs due to the government’s decision.The speakers warned that they would stage a sit-in in Islamabad if the government did not stop implementing the decision.