 Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 7 : Casual workers of the Public Health and engineering (PHE) department held a protest demonstration demanding regularization of their services in Jammu today. Led by Tanveer Hussain, president of the PHE casual labor association, over 200 to 300 casual labors, today protested outside the office of the chief engineer PHE in Jammu demanding the regularization of their services and payment of pending wages. Scores of workers removed their shirts and raised anti-government slogans. Hussain alleged that despite assurances by the successive governments to regularize their service, they have not been given their dues. "We are the actual work force of the department, we are being made fools by the successive state governments, there are many who have been working with the department for decades now but their services are yet to be regularized," he said. The protesters also served an ultimatum to the state government till May 20 failing which they would proceed on an indefinite strike in the region. "If we go on the strike the common people would suffer, so we don't want to increase their suffering, but the government is forcing us... if our demands are not addressed till May 20 we will go on indefinite strike," he said. |
