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
Sindh to issue Benazir Mazdoor Card this month, says Saeed Ghani
Karachi
January 17, 2021
Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has announced that the provincial government is going to start issuing the Benazir Mazdoor Card (BMC) in the current month, saying the card is the first of its kind initiative by any province in the country for the welfare of the labourers.
Addressing a reception hosted for him by the North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry here on Saturday, he said the BMC was as much a groundbreaking project for the welfare of deprived sections of the society as the initiative to launch the Banazir Income Support Programme some years back.
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.
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The effect of the government s policy of keeping the national minimum wage low will be a rise in the workers social unrest, so that disruptions in sectors such as trade, railways or machine building are highly likely next year, president of the Cartel ALFA National Trade Union Confederation (CNS) Bogdan Hossu said on Tuesday.
Several dozen members of the trade union organization picketed today the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, demanding the government to increase the minimum gross wage to 2,400 lei. The Executive announced on Monday its decision to increase the minimum gross wage from 2,230 lei to 2,300 lei and that it will regulate this decision on Wednesday.