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Military Junta crushes movement but embers of resistance still alight 07/11/2007 Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests Khalid Bhatti, SMP Lahore, Pakistan The generals who run…
Tens of thousands of garment workers have headed back to their factories in the Adamze Export Processing Zone, where machines are abuzz and the remnants of burned tires and vandalized…
More than 25000 textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled Bangladesh to demand back pay and bonuses in one of the country’s biggest industrial zones. The workers walked…
By Khalid Bhatti 01/01/2007 The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from…
by Khalid Bhatti 28/11/2006 The TURCP organised its first national convention on 23 November 2006 in Lahore Press Club. More than 300 trade union leaders and activists attended the convention…
By Khalid Bhatti 20/11/2006 Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists Trade Union Rights Campaign Organised a trade union meeting in the industrial area of Kot Lakhpat in…
By Khalid Bhatti 19/10/2006 Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions. The Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan organized a meeting…
Thousands of protesting workers set fire to six garment factories in Bangladesh after a colleague was killed and scores injured in the clashes with police. The violence erupted on Monday…
Implement the agreement or face the Strike action Thousands of Power loom (textiles) workers marched through the main streets of Faisalabad (the third largest city of Pakistan and center of…
1400 workers reinstated The 1400 daily wages and contract postal workers have won their battle against the postal authorities. The postal authorities sacked these workers without any legal procedure and…
Post office authorities have sacked the 1400 postal workers, working on daily wages basis from last many Years. One sacked worker describe the situation in these words “we worked for…
Immigrant workers in Middle East are on the move Immigrant workers in the Middle East are fighting against the slave conditions they face and the non-payment of their salaries. Although…