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Privitisation of healthcare in Punjab: Workers organised and braced for retaliation.
In May 2019, all affiliated organisations of Punjab health workers formed a Grand Health Alliance (GHA) and conducted its first general meeting. The organisations in the alliance include Punjab Young Doctors Association, Grade 4 Para Medical Association, Health Professional Alliance, Young Nurses Association, Health Support Staff Association and many more. The alliance was in response…
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Workplace deaths: Electricity companies ignoring the crisis
In the last two weeks of July 2019, about five incidents happened in electricity companies in which workers were dead. Despite all verbal promises by government authorities and electricity company administrative heads, the lives of workers are still in danger. The deadly incident happened in electricity companies that are handed over to the private sector,…
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Closure of factories triggering unemployment crisis in Pakistan.
Each day, the economic crisis in Pakistan is becoming severe, and it is impacting every industrial sector and households. The decline in general economic condition is accelerated by an increase in foreign loans by the government, increasing current account deficit and continuous decline in value of the currency. The clouds of hyperinflation have devastated the…
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Mining disasters in Baluchistan
In July 2019, 11 miners who were stuck during a disaster in a coal mine located in the region of Degari Baluchistan, nine of them were announced dead, and two were in a serious condition. Three of the miners who were rescued earlier, among them, only two survived. Poisonous gas filled the mining chamber that…
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Sylvia Courtnage: A committed trade unionist and PTUS supporter is no longer with us.
We regret to inform that a die-hard and committed Trade Unionist Sylvia Courtnage is no longer with us. She dies on June 23 after a long and brave struggle against illness. Sylvia became politically active in the 1970s, becoming a supporter of the Militant newspaper in 1974 in Portsmouth. As a committed trade unionist, she…
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Ship recycling industry in Pakistan – State and mafia against workers
Pakistan ranks third in the world for shipbreaking and recycling. It is famous for recycling large vessels particularly oil and cargo. It is a dangerous work where workers manually use different iron welding machines to break down the vessels. The cut-out iron and parts are then removed by large cranes onto a beach scrap yard,…
