NTUF demands immediate end of growing exploitation of workers
Karachi
January 21, 2021
The National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) staged a sit-in at Bilal Chowrangi in front of a factory in Korangi Industrial Area Wednesday held against growing exploitation of workers and violation of labour laws.
A large number of workers carrying banners and placards attended the protest and raised slogans for their demands. Speakers, including NTUF leaders Nasir Mansoor and Comrade Gul Rehman, and Home-based Women Workers Federation leader Zehra Khan, said industrialists were engaged in brutal economic exploitation of workers.
âAs per labour laws, it is mandatory to give written appointment letters to workers, but more than 95 per cent of workers are deprived of this legal right,â said Mansoor. âWithout appointment letters, these workers cannot avail their legal and constitutional rights and privileges.â
PEOPLE survey the destroyed bikes near the Natha Khan bridge on Friday. PPI
KARACHI: As protest sit-ins against the Mach tragedy continued on Friday in the city, at least six motorbikes were torched after a clash broke out between protesters and commuters on main Sharea Faisal, police said.
Protest sit-ins were being staged at over 20 locations in the city, causing traffic chaos and disrupting flight schedules. Protests were also held in other cities and towns of Sindh.
Groups of Shia community members continued their sit-ins at various places in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Jacobabad, Thatta, Badin, Mirpurkhas, Shaheed Benazirabad, Naushahro Feroze, Shikarpur, Kandhkot-Kashmore, Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot and Sanghar districts.
Karachi
January 9, 2021
Infuriated by Prime Minister Imran Khanâs statement that equated the demand of Quetta protesters for his visit with âblackmailing the premierâ, Shia groups and the Hazara community expanded their protest sit-ins against the Machh tragedy to more locations in Karachi, blocking multiple major roads in the city that resulted in not only massive traffic jams but also clashes between protestors and commuters.
Eleven miners of the Shia Hazara community were brutally killed before dawn on Sunday while they were asleep near a remote coal mine in the mountainous area of Machh in Balochistan. The Islamic State (IS) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Labour rights activists call for implementation of minimum wages
Karachi
December 17, 2020
Speakers at a moot on Wednesday stressed the need for a strong labour movement for the implementation of the labour laws at the time when deepening recession and the Covid-19 outbreak had created huge problems for workers.
The moot, titled âDialogue program â Minimum wages and its implementationâ, was hosted by the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) at a local hotel and attended by representatives of workers, trade unions and the provincial labour department.
The session was moderated by Home-Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) general secretary Zehra Khan.
Minimum Wages Board Chairman and Additional Secretary Labour Dr Zahid Hussain said that after the 18th constitutional amendment, an improvement could be observed in the labour laws. He added that many new labour-related laws were enacted in Sindh and the province was far ahead of other provinces regarding the la