KUJ-D warns Aaj News of protest if staff salaries not disbursed

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published: 28 March 2017

The Karachi Union of Journalists, Dastoor, has issued a warning to Aaj News regarding delayed staff salaries. The union expressed deep concern over the financial struggles of journalists and urged immediate action.

Summary

KARACHI – The Karachi Union of Journalists, Dastoor (KUJ-D) has warned Aaj News management of protest if it continues to delay disbursing salaries to staff.

In a letter to Ahmad Zubari, Managing Director at the channel, the union secretary Shoaib Ahmed said the long delay in paying off salaries was a matter of serious concern.

“It is very unfortunate that the media owners make huge profits owing to the hard work of journalists and other media workers but the managements of these channels pay no heed towards problems of journalists, who continue to suffer as they are not even being remunerated for their services,” the KUJ-D wrote.

Ahmed said the channels including Aaj were pushing journalists towards a situation where they take to the streets to protest.

While calling for immediate payment of salaries, the secretary said KUJ-D was under extreme pressure from its members, therefore “we wouldn’t be able to further stop ourselves from staging a protest.”

KEY POINTS:

• KUJ-D warns Aaj News of protest if salaries are not paid.
• Long delays in salary payments are causing severe distress among journalists.
• The union emphasizes the hard work of journalists is not being valued.
• Management's neglect could lead to street protests by journalists.
• Immediate payment of salaries is urged by the union secretary.