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We post below the self-presentation of the Labour Education Foundation (LEF) Pakistan.
Established in 1993 as a non-government organization, Labour Education Foundation (LEF) is an initiative of renowned trade union leaders, human rights and women rights activists to organize, capacitate (...)
At its national conference on the right to dignity of labour and decent work for all, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) observed that the backbone of any true democratic movement is a strong labour movement that advocates for social protection, fair wages without discrimination, (...)
JUST six months before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, trade unions had reiterated the urgency of protecting workers’ rights on a global platform and warned against “an unprecedented level of income inequality, shrinking democratic space and an age of anger where corporations have too (...)
On September 14, at Parda Bagh Peshawar, a new history was set in the Pakistani working-class Movement. Thousands of workers, Government employees and pensioners from more than 61 labour organizations, trade unions and pensioners associations united under the umbrella of All Pakistan (...)
A report launched on the seventh anniversary of the deadly fire in Baldia Town’s garment factory that killed over 250 labourers says that although multiple initiatives aimed at addressing workplace safety have been initiated in Pakistan since then, they lack the necessary elements that must be (...)
Qamar-Uz-Zaman Khan, a veteran trade unionist was arrested on Saturday, June 22 for organising a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sadiqabad, a sub-district in central Pakistan.
Khan holds the office of Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign’s general secretary (...)
Workers struggle with antiquated equipment, unscrupulous owners, and corrupt labour inspectors and labour courts. Unions and progressive NGOs are making only slow progress in the mining sector.
It was 2am, on May 7, in the village of Shalmano. Seven dead bodies had just arrived in the area (...)
With the horrific mine accident that killed six workers in the Kalat district in Balochistan on 4 April 2018, at least 11 workers at mines in different parts of Pakistan have died since the end of March.
The deadly mine safety crisis continues to claim workers’ lives in Pakistan. Six (...)
Ten IndustriALL Global Union affiliates are urging the government of Pakistan to ratify ILO Convention 176 (C176) on Safety and Health in Mines. This follows a decision by IndustriALL’s Executive Committee in November 2017, for a global campaign to end fatalities in Pakistani mines.
The (...)
One of the largest brands in Pakistan’s apparel industry, Khaadi, has found itself at the centre of a growing civil campaign against inhumane workplace conditions have been held in Karachi and Lahore over the last week by workers and activists alleging high-handedness and unfair labour (...)
Gadani, in south-western Pakistan near Karachi, host the world’s third largest ship breaking yard. A gas cylinder exploded when workers were dismantling an oil tanker, causing the ship to catch fire. Some 59 workers were badly burned and many people reportedly jumped overboard to escape the (...)
An ILO Report, released in September 2016, has estimated that more than 40 million people are victims of modern slavery today.
Of these, 25m are engaged in forced labour and the other 15m are victims of forced marriages. There is also a gender and age dimension: 71pc of modern slavery victims are women and girls while one in four, i.e., 25pc are children.
There are many manifestations of modern slavery: forced labour including labour trafficking, sex trafficking including child sex trafficking, (...)
PepsiCo management at the company’s Frito-Lay plant in Lahore, Pakistan has responded to the formation and official registration of a trade union with 650 members by harassing and transferring union officers and seeking to violate the union’s collective bargaining rights by creating a bogus (...)
Debt is everywhere a tool of social control, and no more so than in the brick kilns of Pakistani Punjab, where it travels across generations.
Central and south Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of humanitarian agencies, activists and scholars as sites of severe labour (...)
We are reproducing here an updated self-presentation of the LEF, taken from their website on May 19, 2016.
Background
Labour Education Foundation,
Established in 1993 as a non-government organization, Labour Education Foundation (LEF) is an initiative of renowned trade union leaders, (...)
Farooq Tariq general secretary AWP speaking at May Day rally in Toba Tek Singh.
Government failed to implement labour laws,
Workers must be considered equal citizens of Pakistan
Stop victimisation of Tenants in Okara
PMLN government have miserably failed to implement labour laws (...)
OVER the course of the PIA workers’ strike, many things have been said that need to be corrected. And the biggest misconception that needs to be corrected is that one that says the workers are the cause of the airline’s problems. They’re not.
The airline’s ratio of workers’ compensation to (...)
Some carrots after the stick and PIA strikers are ready to talk
PIA partially restores international and domestic flights as four ‘missing’ protestors appear in different parts of Karachi
Protest leaders say they are willing to talk with govt if Shehbaz Sharif and Chaudhry Nisar are (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-017-2016 5 February 2016
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Four trade union leaders disappeared following arrest by Rangers
On February 2, the Pakistan Rangers, who have been given unbridled powers by the Federal government, have (...)
Workers jailed for protesting illegal mass terminations at Philip Morris Pakistan
Thirty-five workers were arrested in the city of Mardan on January 6 for peacefully protesting the brutal instant termination of 141 employees at the Pakistan subsidiary of tobacco giant Philip Morris (...)
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