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trade union rights campaign - pakistan
Workers' of the world unite
No to privatisation
Long live workers’ internationalism, and long live workers' unity!
Repeal the Special Powers Act!
50,000 Telecom workers join countrywide strike
16 workers injured in clashes with paramilitary forces
Azad Qadri and Aazam Janjua, TURCP Islamabad
21 July 2008
50,000 workers strike - power looms shut down in Faisalabad
Four day strike forced the government and owners to accept workers demands
Khalid Bhatti, TURCP Faisalabad
21 July 2008
Pakistan: Emergency Solidarity Appeal
Latest appeal for support from Pakistani trade unionists
TURC-P
17 January 2008
Pakistan: Emergency Solidarity Appeal
From Pakistani workers and youth under martial law
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign-Pakistan.
On behalf of the TURCP National Executive Committee.
16 November 2007.
Kashmir: Public sector workers continue strike despite leader’s betrayal
Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal
J Khan, Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir, Kotli, Kashmir, 16 February 2007
Kashmir: Government declares strike over earthquake compensation illegal
Solidarity and protest letters urgently needed
J Khan, Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir, Kotli, Kashmir, 16 February 2007
Kashmir: Appeal for solidarity with earthquake affected workers
The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).
J Khan, TURC- K, Kotli, Kashmir, 30 January 2007
Pakistan: Sindh teachers win legal battle against ban on union
Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders
Sher Abro, Organiser TURCP (Dadu area), and local teachers’ union leader, 17 January 2007
Kashmir: Successful Trade Union rights conference held
Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.
J Khan, Kashmir, 11 January 2007
Pakistan: Breakthrough first National Convention of Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP)
More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance
Fazal Abbas Shah and Rukhsana Manzoor, TURCP, Lahore, Pakistan, 28 November 2006
Pakistan: No to the 12 Hour Working Day, No To the Industrial Relations Ordinance 2002
Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists
Fazal Abass Shah, Chairman TURCP, Lahore Pakistan, 20 November 2006
Pakistan: Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) in Sindh rejects ban on teachers’ organisations.
Reinstate 144 sacked leaders of teachers organisations
Sher Muhammad Abro, Organiser TURCP Dadu, Sindh, 23 October 2006
Pakistan: No to the 12 hour day! No to the ban on Trade Unions
Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions
Azam Janjuah, Organiser TURCP Islamabad, 19 October 2006
Pakistan: Balakot, one year after the devastating earthquake
Quake survivors caught in limbo
Azam Janjua, Organiser Trade Union Rights Campaign, Islamabad, 12 October 2006
Pakistan: Sindh police teargas and baton charge protesting teachers
2,500 teachers demonstrate outside Chief Minister House against union ban
Sher Muhammad Abro, TURCP Sindh, and Sindh Teachers’ Union, Thursday 31 August 2006
Pakistan: TURCP leads struggle against feudal repression and police atrocities
Strike closes main highways
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, TURCP, 29 August 2006
Kashmir: First Trade Union Rights campaign meeting held in Mirpur
International workers’ solildarity, a must for workers in Kashmir
TURC-K reporters, Kotli, Kashmir, 1 June 2006
Police brutally attack peaceful workers’ demonstration in Karachi
Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) condemns police brutality and organises solidarity demonstration
Babu Ladhu, Organiser TURCP, Karachi, 23 May 2006
Sacked Postal workers win battle
One thousand four hundred workers reinstated as result of struggle
Chaudhary Shafique, TURCP Organiser, Lahore, Pakistan, 22 May 2006
Thousands of power loom workers show their anger
Implement the agreement or face strike action!
Malik Muhammad Din Organizer TURCP Faisalabad, 20 May 2006
May Day 2006: Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURCP) organises activities across Pakistan
Activities go ahead despite intimidation of authorities
TURCP reporters, Pakistan, 8 May 2006
Asian earthquake disaster: Relief work continues through the winter
Four schools continue to function despite freezing temperatures
Rukhsana Manzoor, national coordinator TURCP Relief Work, 14 March 2006
TURCP condemns Police brutality against protesting teachers
Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) organised a protest demonstration in Multan, Pakistan against police brutality.
Asif Ali, TURCP Multan, Pakistan, Thursday 2 February 2006
Earthquake Disaster: Trade Union Rights Campaign continues earthquake relief
Tremendous response from unions and working class internationally
Rukhsana Manzoor, TURCP National Co-ordinator of earthquake relief work, 13 November 2005
Capitalist greed and profits adding insult to injury
No truck has left Lahore for the last two days
Press Release to Pakistani media by Trade Union Rights Campaign (TURC) and Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP), Thursday, 13 October 2005
Asian earthquake disaster: Financial appeal
Urgent appeal for earthquake aid
Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan, Tuesday 11 October 2005
Asian earthquake disaster: Over thirty thousand casualties in devastated region
Kashmir worst hit region with over 21000 casualties already reported - Wide swathes of destruction - Many towns and villages wiped out - Hundreds and thousands of people still waiting for rescue and food - Socialist Movement (CWI) members feared dead.
Rukhsana Manzoor and Khalid Bhatti, Lahore, Socialist Movement Pakistan, 10 October 2005
Asian earthquake disaster: Poorest suffer as earthquake strikes Kashmir, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
Lack of funding for public services makes disaster even worse.
Rukhsana Manzoor and Khalid Bhatti, Lahore, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Saturday 8 October 2005
Government crackdown on telecom strike
Report from Daily Times Pakistan. Appeal letter. Press release.
turc-p
15 June 2005
Over 300 telecommunication workers and trade unionists arrested
Government starts military crackdown as it announces unilateral date for privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunications
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser of the Trade Union Rights Campaign
Pakistan
Monday 13 June 2005
Government starts crackdown against Telecom trade unionists
The stakes have been raised sharply in the battle between Pakistan’s telecommunications workers and the Musharraf government over the question of the privatisation of the industry.
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan
11 June 2005
Stop Press. Negotiations break down in Pakistan Telecommunications
Formal negotiations between the Privatisation Commission, management of PTCL and the Action Committee broke down yesterday, 6 June.
7 June 2005
Telecommunications strike shows important lessons for Pakistani working class
Workers need to remain vigilant over further privatisation attempts
Khalid Bhatti
6 June 2005
Historic Victory for Pakistan Telecommunications workers
Ten day strike forced the Government to retreat – Pakistan Telecommunications privatisation postponed for an indefinite period
Rukhsana Manzoor and Aazam Janjua, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan
4 June 2005
Standoff continues: PTCL privatization opposed
Article from Dawn, an English language newspaper, June 1 2005
turc-p, June 3 2005
Solidarity protest with Pakistani Telecommunications workers in Lahore
Ten unions announce support for Telecommunications strike
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan
30 May 2005
Stop Press - Telecommunications Trade Unions pull out of negotiations
The Pakistani Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) Trade Union Action Committee has decided to boycott negotiations with management in a meeting which finished late during the night of 29 May.
Azam Janjuah, organiser, TURC-P Islamabad
30 May 2005
Indefinite Strike continues as government prepares for a crack down
Management is not serious in wanting to solve the dispute
Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan
Monday 30 May 2005
Stop Press - Telecom Trade Union leaders taken into custody for five hours
Protest messages needed urgently
Saturday 28 May 2005
Appeal for solidarity with all-out Telecom strike
Telecom workers struggle against privatisation.
Saturday 28 May 2005
Telecom strike continues as negotiations fail
“Government threats will not be able break our strike”. Pictures.
Azad Qadri, Islamabad, and Qadoos Khan, Lahore
Thursday 26 May 2005
Indefinite Telecom strike started, complete closedown observed all over the country
Sixty thousand telecom workers of Pakistani Telecommunications Ltd (PTCL) have started an indefinite strike today.