Pb power employees supports Haryana power employees

Power employees in Punjab today came out in support of protesting employees of Haryana power distribution companies, who had announced to go on a two-day strike on June 29 and 30 and condemned the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) invoked by the government in Haryana.
Several Punjab power utility employees' associations including PSEB Engineers' Association (PSEBEA), JEs Council and PSEB Employees Joint Forum demanded amicable settlement of dispute between Haryana government and power employees to avoid the two-day strike on June 29 and 30.
PSEBEA, JEs Council and PSEB Employees condemned the imposition of ESMA on the power sector employees, PSEBEA President Baldev Singh Sran said in a joint statement here.

Associations strongly opposed any move of privatisation of power sector in Haryana and urged the chief minister to hold talks with power workers to find an amicable solution to their problems so as to avoid the proposed two-day strike which is in the larger interest of power sector and state, he said.
More than 25,000 employees of Haryana power distribution companies would observe two-day strike on June 29 and 30, demanding rollback of "outsourcing" of operation and maintenance of power sub-divisions even, Haryana government has invoked the ESMA, for six months to prevent any disruption in power supply.
Power employees in Haryana have been protesting against the state government's decision of "outsourcing" of the job of operation and maintenance of 23 power sub-divisions in the state and removal of 485 contractual employees and purchase of power from private sources.

Besides, they have also been demanding filling of 30,000 vacant posts, inquiry into "sharp rise in losses and debt" of power distribution companies and scrapping outsourcing policy.