Tag: unemployment
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Punjab Government’s Anti-Worker Policies Lead to Termination of 750 Water Management Employees… What’s the Solution?
750 employees working under the National Program for Improvement of Water Courses (NPIW-II) in Punjab’s Agriculture Department’s Water Management section, who had been employed on contract for twenty years, have been forcibly terminated by the Punjab government. Despite the government providing a written one-year extension to the National Program for Improvement of Water Courses 2,…
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PTUS Summer 2024 Bulletin
The Summer 2024 issue of the Pakistan Trade Union Solidarity bulletin highlights the struggles and resilience of Pakistani workers amidst the economic crisis, inflation, and government repression. Please get in touch with us (contact@pakistansolidarity.org) to order printed copies for you or your union/organisation branch. The lead article covers the May Day 2024 celebrations organized by…
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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…
