Category: Industrial Workers
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Karachi Electric company labour union seminar against inflation, unemployment and privitisation
A seminar titled “Will Inflation and unemployment remain the fate of the working class?” was organized by the K-Electric Labour Union (CBA) on May 29, 2023, at the PMA House in Karachi. The seminar was attended by a significant number of workers. During the event, Paras Jan from Red Workers Front addressed the workers and…
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Textile Industry Crisis in Pakistan: Exploitation, Layoffs, and the Need for Unions to Protect Workers’ Rights
Currently, the textile industry in Pakistan is facing numerous crises, causing many companies to shut down. A survey shows that approximately 7 million workers have become redundant in this sector, which means 7 million families are affected as typically only one person earns for the entire family in Pakistan. The country is experiencing an inflation…
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Powerful Street Theatre “Machine” Sheds Light on Exploitation and the Need for Collective Struggle”
Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) of Pakistan recently organized an impactful open street theatre performance of the play “Machine” in the industrial area of Gajju-Matta, near Lahore. The play, originally written by Safdar Hashmi, a courageous worker who met a tragic end, sheds light on the plight of workers within companies and emphasizes the necessity of…
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Master Tiles Gujranwala: Bosses refused to pay 5 months’ wages – workers striking
The Master Group of Industries in Pakistan is a prime example of the exploitative nature of bosses. These billionaires are making billions of rupees from their businesses while their workers are struggling to make ends meet. One of their businesses is the Master Tiles Factory, where workers have been denied their wages for the last…
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Quetta: Water Distribution and Sanitation Company employees protest
Sate run Water and Sanitation Agency WASA workers staged protests in front of the WASA head office in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. Workers protested under the banner of the Balochistan Labour Federation and the WASA Employees Union. They protested against the ending of over-time payments, ending of a weekly day off, non-payments of salaries,…
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Karachi: Workers protested for the implementation of Rs.25,000 minimum wage
On 23 December 2021, Workers under the banner of the Red Workers Front protested against the non-implementation of the minimum wage. Sindh provincial government decided to increase the minimum wage to Rs. 25,000 (140 USD) per month. However, after six months, workers are not paid the increased minimum wage by employers. Workers were outraged by…
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Massive rally of industrial workers in Karachi
n a thousand factory workers from Korangi and Landhi industrial areas of Karachi was held under the banner of the Workers’ Solidarity Committee.
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STATE BRUTALITY: Police tortured and arrested front-line doctors and staff for demanding Personal Protective Equipment.
Today, dozens of health workers were tortured and arrested in Quetta, Pakistan while they were protesting for the provision of personal protective equipment outside the office of the Chief Minister of Balochistan Province in Pakistan.
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Pakistan: health workers continue struggle against privatisation
A powerful movement of health workers is going on against privatisation in Pakistan. The government is snatching the basic right of healthcare from the working class in a country where already more than 80 percent of the population has no access to basic health provision. Rather than building new public hospitals and spending more on…
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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…
