Employees protest against PIA privatisation

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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Joint Action Committee on Wednesday staged a protest against PIA privatisation in different cities of the countries.

On call of PIA’s Joint Action Committee the employees continue to protest in front of the head office.

The protest was attended by the representative of all the associations of the employees, pilots and officers.

The employees closed all the offices and halted booking, cargo and courier services.

The workers stated that government is illegally privatising PIA which is not accepted at any cost. They locked all offices and demanded of to take back PIA privatisation bill.

They further threatened to suspend aerial operation from February 2. Sohail Baloch said that they are in contact with Civil Aviation, Railway, Steel mills, oil tankers and other institutes and companies’ labour unions and in case of need they all will be with the employees of PIA.