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LEF documentary on Power loom workers selected
for Berlin Film Festival:(Khalid
Mahmood 13\02\2012)
Labour Education Foundation’s documentary “Rise of
the Oppressed” on power loom workers of Faisalabad
directed by Ammar Aziz has been selected for......
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Labour
Party Pakistan under attack, Help us to fight back:
(Farooq
Tariq 15\11\2011)
Several supporters and members of Labour Party
Pakistan are locked up if different jails of
Pakistan....
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ITGLWF Condemns Jailing of Pakistan Power Loom Union
Leaders:
The
International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’
Federation has strongly condemned the brutal
campaign waged by employers on....
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“Registration
as workers is the legal right of Home Based
Workers”. This was
demanded by women present at the first ever
celebration of Home Based Workers Day jointly
organized Home Net Pakistan and....
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Nobody in Pakistan
postal services is in the position to solve the
problems of union. Saeed
Hameed Ahmed has been striving for the worker rights
of Pakistan postal services since 1957. He formed
an....
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Ship
breaking industry earning Billions annually is being
ignored by the Government institutions.
On
27th September a seminar was held in
Karachi on the topic of working conditions and
rights of...
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We will protest
until our demands are met.
All primary teachers Association
Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa is on protest since October 1st
and from 22nd October classes are being
boycotted too.....
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Daily waged
workers of Nestle Pakistan’s Sheikhupura factory are
facing numerous problems.
Their wages are not increased, denied of benefits
such as weekly and annual holidays....
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Six
power loom workers’ leaders sentenced for 10 year
each by Anti-Terrorist Court in Faisalabad
By
Khalid Mahmood (01\11\2011)Anti-Terrorist
Court’s judge Mian Muhammad Anwar Nazir sentenced
six Labour Qaumi Movement’s leaders for 10 years
each under terrorism charges in Faisalabad...read
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18 trade
unions and political group reject to privatization
of PTCL, Workers assured full support for October
5th demo in Lahore
A Pakistan Telecommunication Workers Solidarity
Multi Party conference was held at Ambassador hotel
in Lahore on 27th of September 2011....read
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Protest
camp by telecommunication workers in Lahore
BY:Farooq Tariq
( 5\08\2011)
On 5th August, over 400 trade unions and political activists came
to GPO Chouck in solidarity with the protesting
Telecommunication workers. The....read
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Learning from Muslim Fundamentalists
By:
Farooq Tariq (24\07\2011)
32 years old Norwegian, Anders Behring Breivik, who
killed 92 on 22nd July 2011 in Oslo has
used similar techniques in bomb blast and shooting
of the...
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MQM PPP alliance once again:
no dignity in politics By:
Farooq Tariq (19\07\2011)
Perhaps never in history of political
alliances, such U turns would have been witnessed
as we see now with MQM returning to the government
in....
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Feelings of revenge will not end with Osama’s death
The Left view from Pakistan
By:Farooq
Tariq(7\5\2011)In
the first four days after Osama Bin Laden’s assassination,
the mass reaction in Pakistan is very mixed. In Punjab
there is a general sympathy towards Asama, however
not....
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May Day
2011: A minimum wage of Rupees 15000 for eight hours
a day: By; Farooq
Tariq(29\04\2011)
Since 1886 May Day has been the workers’
day across the globe “It is Resolved ... that
eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labor
from and after May....
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Policy for home-based Workers
Sought:KARACHI,
April 11: Rights activists at a convention
on Monday demanded that the government formulate a
national policy for home-based workers (HBWs) and
legislate to recognize them as workers....
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Media predilections, the
case of MQM and AMP rallies
By: Farooq Tariq(13\04\2011)
There were two public rallies this month in Punjab.
In both rallies, the numbers of participants were
nearly equal. In both cases, over 10,000 participated
in each of the rallies, One was organized by MQM in..
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First Annual Convention of Home
Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), Pakistan (11
April 2011, Art Council Auditorium, Karachi) It
is historic event that the Home Based Women Workers
Federation, Pakistan (HBWWF),...
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