{"id":13602,"date":"2025-11-03T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/03\/railway-union-demands-immediate-relief\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:31:04","slug":"railway-union-demands-immediate-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/03\/railway-union-demands-immediate-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Union Demands Immediate Relief for Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Ishtiaq Irfan<\/strong>, divisional president of the Railway Union, said the union is working day and night to protect the rights of railway workers and urged the government to take immediate action on several pressing issues. Speaking at a union gathering at the Electric Zone office in Rawalpindi, he demanded that food charges levied on railway employees at all rail canteens and on PTO services be stopped forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>The Railway Union also pressed for the immediate settlement of pension and other dues owed to retired Pakistan Railways employees, many of whom remain unpaid despite years of service. Dr. Irfan warned that failure to address these arrears would leave the union with no option but to escalate to organized protest action.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the event highlighted concerns about medical support at the Railway Hospital, noting that while checkups are available, medicines are often not supplied and employees are given prescriptions to purchase drugs externally. The Railway Union demanded that measures be taken to ensure essential medicines are provided free of cost to workers and pensioners who rely on railway medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Senior leader Syed Zahoor Shah and other office-bearers outlined financial grievances affecting active staff. The Railway Union called for restoration of arrears calculated according to the TLA pay scale of Rs 37,000, which have been suspended for the last four years, and urged reinstatement of the electric technical allowance that had been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Several rail employees formally joined the union during the event and were welcomed by Dr. Irfan and other leaders. New entrants included Syed Naseer Shah, Farooq Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik and Musarrat Javed, while senior vice president Khizer Hayat Malik and leaders Younus Jatt, Muhammad Khan, Tahir, Rustam Khan, Rasheed Khan Jadun, Waqar Swati and Hammad Wali also addressed the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The Railway Union reiterated its demand that the government and railway administration treat these matters with urgency: immediately stop canteen and PTO food charges for employees, release all outstanding pension and service dues, ensure provision of medicines at railway hospitals, and restore suspended allowances. The union said it will pursue further action if these demands are not met promptly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Union demands halt to canteen charges and immediate payment of pension arrears; calls for medicines and restoration of allowances for staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}