Tag: workers rights
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International Trade Unions Rally Behind Arrested Gilgit-Baltistan Activists
International Solidarity Campaign Gains Momentum for Ahsan Ali and AAC-GB Leaders The arrest and detention of key leaders from the Awaami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB) has sparked a powerful wave of solidarity across British trade unions, with multiple branches and conferences passing emergency motions demanding their immediate release. Background: Arrests Spark International Solidarity The Pakistani…
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Karachi: Successful strike by Artistic Milliner workers for implementation of wage increase notification
The Sindh government issued a notification to increase the minimum monthly wage to 37,000 rupees (132 USD) in all private industries and factories from 1st July 2024. However, despite this, most factories in Karachi are still paying workers a minimum wage of merely 32,000 rupees (114 USD), or even less in some places. Workers across…
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Five-Day Strike of All Primary School Teachers Successful! Intensify the Struggle!
Thousands of teachers protested in front of Peshawar Assembly Hall on the call of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa All Primary School Teachers Association. Meanwhile, all primary schools across the province remained closed. Teachers’ demands are as follows: PTUS, while fully supporting all teachers’ demands, expressed solidarity with them and stood shoulder to shoulder in this struggle. Due…
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Lahore: APCA Protest for Approval of Demands
On October 31, as part of weekly district-level protests across Punjab, APCA (All Pakistan Clerks Association) joined with various organizations in Lahore to protest against the black law of Leave Encashment, privatization of government schools, and other workers’ demands in front of the Civil Secretariat Lahore. The central rally started from the McLeod Road office…
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Lahore: Metro Employees Forcibly Terminated Without Salary Payment, Employees Protest, Metro Service Suspended
The security company’s contract with Punjab Mass Transit Authority had expired and was awarded to a new company. Metro service employees work under various private companies, which are no less exploitative of employees. Workers are being paid less than the government-mandated minimum monthly wage of 37,000 rupees (132 USD). Cleaning staff and security guards are…
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Quetta: Formation of Grand Health Alliance Comprising 16 Organizations to Oppose Hospital Privatization and Address Other Issues
On September 11, a meeting of representatives from 16 health department-related organizations was held at the Provincial Sandeman Hospital under the auspices of the Young Doctors Association Balochistan. In this meeting, the leadership of all organizations collectively formed the Grand Health Alliance against the privatization of the health sector. The participating organizations include: Young Doctors…
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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,…
