PTCL’s row with the government shows no sign of letting up. DAWN reports that the PTCL union workers have given the government 24 hours to announce a package of over 3 billion rupees for employees and have threaten to call a countrywide strike if the demand was not met. That’s not all:
The deadline was given after a meeting between the committee and the management failed to make headway because PTCL President Junaid Khan made the package conditional with privatization. The union leaders wanted the announcement of the package without any compromise on the privatization issue, members of the action committee told Dawn.
The socialist party is covering this from the union’s point of view.
One has to wonder why the government wants to privatize it’s very rare cash cow (profits were Rs21 billion for the first 9 months of this year)? If they want to do something positive wouldn’t it be better to stop offering subsidies to PTCL and deregulate the telecom market?
Don’t we feel smart!
If you’re going to make a statement like that, wouldn’t it make more sense to actually state your point of view? Find, stop subsidizing PTCL but I’m really trying to find a good reason for deregulating the telecom market and frankly, I’m coming up indifferent! Change that… I want it to be MORE regulated! …by competent people though!