Leaders of the All Pakistan Trade Unions Organisation (APTUO) have cautioned the government to take concrete steps to check the growing unemployment, hunger and homelessness to avert the ensuing danger of extreme lawlessness in Sindh.
Addressing a meeting of the workers of trade unions on Saturday, the General Secretary of APTUO, S P Lodhi, and central co-ordinator of People's Labour Bureau, Habibuddin Junaidi, said that the ongoing process of closure of industrial units, lockouts and removal of workers from factories was adding fuel to the fire. Others who spoke included Yakoob, Nadra Parveen, Nasiruddin Mehmood, Ashraf Baloch, Akber Afridi and Zulfiqar Ahmed.
The labour leaders brought under discussion anti-labour practices being practised by the federal and the provincial governments and asked for developing a humane approach towards the low-paid workers and labourers employed in different factories.
They held the private sector and the provincial/federal governments responsible for adopting policies that hit hard labour and force them into joblessness.
They referred to the bangles industry of Hyderabad, Thatta Sugar Mills, Dadu Sugar Mills and Kiran Sugar Mills and asked for relief to the affected people.