Work Places Or Death Chambers For Workers
Factory fire killed 300 workers, hundreds injured The garment factory inferno in Karachi’s Baldia Town, which took the lives of at least 275 workers, including a number of women and…
Tag: Trade Union
Airlines workers win
By Khalid Bhatti 18/02/2011 Four-day strike called off. Government accepted all three demands Thousands of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) workers ended their 4-day strike as the government accepted their demands.…
Sacked workers vent anger in Karachi
Stand off continues as workers’ siege of company headquarters enters third day On Wednesday 19 January, the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC) sacked 4,000 workers without prior notice. Thousands of…
Railway workers on the move
By Rukhsana Manzoor 22/01/2011 20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat Thousands of railway workers took to the streets of Lahore against the planned retrenchment of…
Release the arrested trade union leaders
By Khalid Bhatti 25/09/2010 Stop terrorising the workers movement The four leaders of a cement factory in Lucky Marwat have been arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act on 19th September in…
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…
Pakistani Women, religious extremism and traditions
Rukhsana Manzoor 27/10/2008 Five women shot, wounded and buried alive The grotesque story of five women in the Jaffarabad district of Baluchistan, who were apparently shot, wounded and then buried…
Telecom workers win strike with 35% increase in the wages
By Khalid Bhatti 31/07/2008 Telecom workers win strike with 35% increase in the wages 8,000 contract workers’ ‘regularisation’ confirmed A two week long strike and protest movement by telecom workers…
Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail
By Khalid Bhatti 29/07/2008 Thousands still sitting inside Telecom headquarters The strike and protest movement of Telecom workers has entered into its third week (see previous reports). Nobody was expecting…
50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike
By Khalid Bhatti 22/07/2008 16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces Thousands of telecom workers employed by PTCL workers are on the strike. PTCL is the largest telecom company…
50,000 Strong Workers Strike Shuts Down Power Looms In Faisalabad
4 day long strike forced the government and owners to accept the demands More than 2,50,000 power looms (small weaving units) remained close for 4 days in the third largest…
May Day events 2008
By Khalid Bhatti 02/05/2008 Trade Union Rights Campaign participates in over 50 towns and city May Day events The Trade Union Rights Campaign organized and intervened in the May Day…