Tag: Trade Unions
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Bhakkar: The Crisis Facing Agriculture and the Plight of Farmers
In Pakistan today, ordinary farmers are forced to live in extreme poverty and destitution. Under state patronage, the plunder by fertiliser factory owners, sugar mill cartels, independent power producers (IPPs), large landowners, and middlemen continues unabated. Crops are purchased for a pittance, and farmers are trapped year after year in a vicious cycle of devastating…
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Sindh: How Can the Strike of Government Employees and Workers Be Made Successful?
At present, the economic crisis has intensified across the entire world. This economic crisis is a global organic crisis of the capitalist system, as a result of which the ruling class is bent on implementing measures such as wage cuts, pension reductions, job losses, privatisation of public institutions, downsizing, and forced retirements. These policies have…
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Pakistan: How Can the Workers’ Movement Advance?
In recent years, the working class in Pakistan has faced the worst attacks in the country’s history. The capitalist ruling class and the military-civil state elite, under IMF directives, are transferring the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the working class. New policies amounting to economic slaughter of workers are being introduced on a…
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Sindh: Government Employees Launch Province-Wide Strike Against Anti-Worker Measures!
The series of economic attacks on working people by rulers acting as agents of the IMF and other imperialist institutions continues unabated. In this same vein, in Sindh—just like all other provinces—the People’s Party, which calls itself the so-called torchbearer of democracy, has implemented anti-worker policies. These include pension reforms, non-payment of DRA (Disparity Reduction…
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Punjab: Privatisation of Health Department rejected – Thousands across the province holding protests!
On March 25, the Grand Health Alliance held a protest rally in Lahore. This rally was organised against the Punjab government’s privatisation of Basic Health Units and Rural Health Centres. Under this government decision, thousands of employees are being forcibly removed through outsourcing. As a result, these employees have been compelled to protest. This government…
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Karachi: Bahria Town Employees Protest Against Non-Payment of Salaries and Dismissals
Over 600 workers were forcibly dismissed from Bahria Town company without three months’ compensation. Bahria Town is the country’s largest real estate company. All dismissed workers’ homes relied on their monthly salaries. One worker said, “I bought a home appliance on installment; now I can’t pay.” Another stated, “I’m the sole breadwinner; without my salary,…
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Gilgit-Baltistan: Thousands protest in freezing cold against the end of wheat subsidy
Last fiscal year, 2023, the Gilgit-Baltistan government imposed heavy taxes on dozens of items. In response, the Traders Association, Hotel Association, and Transport Union protested against these taxes through their respective platforms. However, no significant movement emerged against these oppressive taxes, emboldening the current coalition government. In October last year, amidst a financial crisis and…
