Labour news from Pakistan
Pakistan Hjemmearbeidene organiserer seg [Fri Fagbevegelse] (in Norwegian) 21-Aug-2008
Pakistan Ïîääåðæèòå ðàáîòíèêîâ ãîñòèíèöû Pearl Continental Karachi! [IUF] (in Russian) 21-Aug-2008
Pakistan Sju år lang kamp for faglige rettigheter [Magasinet for fagorganiserte] (in Norwegian) 19-Aug-2008
Pakistan Les travailleurs de l’hôtel Pearl Continental de Karachi augmentent la mobilisation d’un cran dans leur lutte de sept ans en faveur des droits syndicaux [UITA] (in French) 19-Aug-2008
Pakistan Levée de l’interdiction des activités syndicales à Pakistan Airlines [FIOT] (in French) 15-Aug-2008
Pakistan Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Step Up Mobilization in Seven-Year Struggle for Union Rights [IUF] 15-Aug-2008
Pakistan Two year campaign pays off as Pakistan government lifts trade union ban [ITF] (More info) 11-Aug-2008
Pakistan Kiln workers, carpet labourers, sanitary workers and civil society activists protest against ill treatment of bonded labour [Daily Times] 09-Aug-2008
Pakistan Unilever's Blue Band magarine: a union-busting spread [AFW-IUF] 06-Aug-2008
Pakistan Workers Union of the Karachi Electric Supply Company demands that all contractual employees be regularised [The News] 02-Aug-2008
Pakistan Sacked NCHD employees stage protests across NWFP [The News] 02-Aug-2008
Pakistan 80,000 NCHD employees may lose jobs [Daily Times] 31-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL United Workers Alliance calls off its nationwide strike after management accepts their demands [The Dawn] 31-Jul-2008
Pakistan Talks between PTCL workers, management fail again [Daily Times] 28-Jul-2008
Pakistan TMA workers continue strike [The Daily Times] 27-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers’ deadline ends [The Post] 26-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees’ strike enters 10th day [The Post] 26-Jul-2008
Pakistan LG workers stage sit-in [The Post] 26-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers threaten to jam network today [Asia Media] 26-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees give govt 48 hours to meet demands [Daily Times] 26-Jul-2008
Pakistan CDA workers warn of more protests [The Post] 25-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers threaten network jam, give 24-hour deadline for acceptance of demands [The Post] 25-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL to regularize 8,000 daily wages employees [The News] 25-Jul-2008
Pakistan Protest at PTCL headquarters today [Asia Media] 25-Jul-2008
Pakistan Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited employees rally, hold demonstration [Frontier Post] 22-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees protest in Lahore [The Frontier Post] 22-Jul-2008
Pakistan Contractual Port Qasim employees regularised [The News] 22-Jul-2008
Pakistan Transporters on strike over petrol prices today [The News] 22-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees threaten to jam system [The News] 22-Jul-2008
Pakistan Network shutdown on 21st if demands not met, warn PTCL employees [Daily Times] 19-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL strike adds to customers’ problems [The News] 19-Jul-2008
Pakistan Sacked FSM workers threaten long march [The News] 19-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees end strike [The Frontier Post] 18-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL employees observe strike [The Frontier Post] 18-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL strike continues as management hoodwinks [The Nation] 18-Jul-2008
Pakistan 4 WASA workers drown in manhole, 1 dies [Daily Times] 18-Jul-2008
Pakistan Workers to protest inflation from 22nd [The News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers continue sit-in outside headquarters [The News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL accepts three demands of workers [The News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan IHC orders District Admin, Police to punish culprits locking up PTCL HQ during strike [Online News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers announce countrywide strike today [The Regional News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers’ rally against new pay package [The News] 17-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers lock company gates; 18 hurt in clashes [The Nation] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan Rangers baton-charge PTCL workers [The Post] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan Committee set up for resolving PTCL employees’ ordeals [The News] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan Displaced sanitary workers living in the open [The News] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan PTCL workers protest countrywide [The News] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan Auqaf employees protest reduction in salaries [The Post] 16-Jul-2008
Pakistan IFJ calls for vigilance to protect journalists safety in Pakistan [IFJ] 10-Jul-2008
Pakistan Around 2,300 Town-I employees on strike against delay in payment of salaries [Daily Times] 08-Jul-2008
Pakistan 860 ad-hoc lecturers to be regularised: Pir Mazhar [The News] 03-Jul-2008
Pakistan Irrigation workers threaten to go on strike [The Post] 02-Jul-2008
Pakistan Ðàáîòíèêè ïèùåâîé ïðîìûøëåííîñòè ïðîòèâ ìàññîâîãî âíåäðåíèÿ íåóñòîé÷èâîé çàíÿòîñòè íà ïðåäïðèÿòèè, «îòïî÷êîâàâøåìñÿ» îò Unilever [www.iuf.org] (in Russian) 25-Jun-2008
Pakistan 10 per cent shares demanded for workers in KESC [The News] 23-Jun-2008
Pakistan City workers end three-day strike [The News] 22-Jun-2008
Pakistan CDGK unions decry Chinese garbage deal [The Daily Times] 20-Jun-2008
Pakistan Les travailleurs de l’alimentation contestent la précarisation massive dans une usine détachée de Unilever [UITA] (in French) 20-Jun-2008
Pakistan Food Workers Challenge Mass Casualization at Unilever Spinoff [IUF] 19-Jun-2008
Pakistan 25 teachers may get notices for long march participation [The News] 18-Jun-2008
Pakistan Laundry workers demand better wages [The News] 16-Jun-2008
Pakistan Laundry workers demand better wages [The News] 16-Jun-2008
Pakistan Ten million child workers [The News] 16-Jun-2008
Pakistan More than 5000 Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) workers to have labour union referendum today [The Nation] 12-Jun-2008
Pakistan City marks World Day Against Child Labour today [Daily Times] 12-Jun-2008
Pakistan / Global World Day Against Child Labour tomorrow: International Labour Conference starting tomorrow in Geneva [Daily Times] 11-Jun-2008
Pakistan ‘World Day Against Child Labour’ on 12th [The News] 10-Jun-2008
Pakistan WWO and APTUF protest outside Labour Department after workers sacked for forming a union [Daily Times] 06-Jun-2008
Pakistan Govt. decides to allow airline union, regularize contractual employees [The News] 04-Jun-2008
Pakistan Not fit for print? IUF open letter on the Pearl Continental Hotel trade union campaign the newspapers would not publish [AFW-IUF] 02-Jun-2008
Pakistan Govt urged not to toe IFI policies [The Post] 02-Jun-2008
Pakistan Child labour on the rise in quake-hit north [UN IRIN] 27-May-2008
Pakistan IFJ condemns targeted killling of journalist Mohammad Ibrahim in Pakistan [IFJ] 26-May-2008
Pakistan Workers protest against exploitation by factory owners [The Daily Times] 24-May-2008