Perils of privatisation
The government of Pakistan has embarked on a fresh programme to privatise the remaining state-owned enterprises and properties. Our country has already gone too far along the road of privatisation,…
Tag: Privatization
Saudi Arabia announced to privatise the postal services
Saudi Arabian minister Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel announced to privatise the state owned Saudi Postal Corp next year. This privatisation is the part of the NTP2020 program. The minister said that the…
Teachers ended sit-in after negotiations with government
We will come back if demands not met School teachers ended on Monday their three-day sit-in at the Punjab Assembly in respect of Ramazan. Hundreds of teachers along with their…
Privatization of education
By Khalid Bhatti 22/05/2016 Who will benefit? The planned handover of 5000 public sector schools in Punjab to Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) and different NGOs and protests and sit-in by the…
PIA Strike Continues Despite State Repression
Four workers killed, eight injured as security forces open fire on PIA protesting workers An all-out strike continued at the state-owned national air lines PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) for the…
Pakistan: Health Workers on the Move
Fighting against the privatisation of public sector hospitals Hundreds of health workers organised a demonstration at Sir Ganga Ram hospital Lahore and later rallied on a nearby main road to…
Gas field privatization
By Khalid Bhatti 12/11/2008 Workers to shut down oil, gas fields across the country Workers in oil and gas fields have decided to shut down all fields in Pakistan. The…
50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike
By Khalid Bhatti 21/07/2008 Thousands of telecom workers employed by PTCL workers are on the strike. PTCL is the largest telecom company in Pakistan. Most telecom offices and telephone exchanges…
PTCL Unions Action Committee Betrayed the Workers
PTCL Struggle: Almost all the leaders of action committee have announced to accept the process of privatization on 3rd August in a press conference. They have accepted this privatization in…
TURCP Will Continue its Campaign against Privatization
Trade Union Rights Campaign strongly condemns the Betrayal of Action committee leadership, which has signed the agreement with PTCL management to accept privatization of state owned telecom company PTCL. The…
The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms
For over 6 weeks, 65 000 telecommunication workers were involved in a bitter struggle against the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) and the government in an attempt to defeat the…
Pakistan Telecommunications Headquarters Reoccupied
In an indication of huge anger at the government serious escalation, 4000 workers have re-occupied the PTCL headquarters. This was a result of the breakdown in negotiations today. These workers…