Pakistán - Over 100 arrested for striking for better wages

The Banda Daud Shah police arrested more than 100 employees of the Hungarian-based MOL Pakistan Oil & Gas Company for protesting at the main gates of the Central Processing Facility in Makori on 29 September 2016. The daily-wage workers had been on strike for several weeks to demand better wages and permanent jobs.

After workers blocked the facility’s main gates, restricting the movement of MOL Pakistan vehicles, the company called the police, who arrived and arrested more than 100 protesters. The workers were taken to various police stations in the district for questioning.

The arrests angered local residents, who took to the streets and blocked the Kohat-Bannu GT Road to demand the immediate unconditional release of workers. The people pointed out that MOL Pakistan exploited their workers, ignored their rights and had been denying then permanent jobs for years.

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