Due to the continued protests by teachers, the District Education Office in Sindh, Pakistan, had agreed to cancel the more than fifty transfers which they had initially ordered. (Please refer to previous report). However the suspension of fifteen teachers remains ...
Read More »Vindictive management suspend and transfer Sindh teachers
The District Education Office (DEO) in Mirpur Khas, a district of Sindh province in Pakistan, illegally suspended 15 teachers and transferred 50 teachers to work in another area. The action was prompted when a teacher clashed with DEO after she ...
Read More »Women health workers protest in Sindh
Lady Health Workers organisation protests at non-payment of wages Sughran Khaskheli A protest was held by the Lady Health Workers organisation (LHW) in Mirpur Khas in the Sindh province, Pakistan demanding the payment of their wages. Outrageously, the treasury is ...
Read More »PIA strike continues despite state repression
Four workers killed, eight injured as security forces open fire on protesting workers Fazal Abbas Shah and Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore An all-out strike continued at the state-owned national air lines PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) for the third ...
Read More »Nestlé. Union leader, Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, released on bail
Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, President of the Employees Union at CBA Kabir wala factory was released on bail from Multan prison after spending almost two months in prison on baseless and false cases. The anti-terrorism court ordered his release after the ...
Read More »Health workers on the move
Fighting against the privatisation of public sector hospitals Rukhsana Manzoor SMP Lahore Hundreds of health workers organised a demonstration at Sir Ganga Ram hospital Lahore and later rallied on a nearby main road to protest against the planned privatisation of ...
Read More »Release Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, CBA Kabir Wala factory union President
Stop state repression and harassment of union leaders and members Syed Fazal Abass, President Pakistan National Trade Unions federation Release Muhammad Hussain Bhatti, CBA Kabir Wala factory union President Stop state repression and harassment of union leaders and members Withdraw ...
Read More »False police case against Comrade Hameed Chanah
Socialist and union organizer targetted by feudal lords and corrupt state officials. Comrade Hameed Chanah, provincial organiser of the Progressive Workers Federation of Pakistan, in the Sindh province, is under attack and facing severe hardship. His only crime is that ...
Read More »Workplaces or workers’ death chambers? Factory fire kills 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 teenage workers, once again exposed the horrific conditions in which labour works in Pakistan. This incident is ...
Read More »Airlines workers win
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. Victorious workers immediately started to celebrate their victory with drum beating and dancing, in ...
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