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KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that there would be no compromise on labourers’ rights be-cause if the labourers were prosperous, then Pakistan would be prosperous. He said that the Party would give representations to the labourers in all elected bodies following its manifesto.
Bilawal said if the people gave the mandate to the PPP in the upcoming general elec-tions, it will start schemes like Benazir Mazdoor Card for the workers across the coun-try, as it has started in Sindh.
In his message on the eve of International Labour Day issued from Media Cell Bilawal House on Sunday, the PPP Chairman said that the backbone of the society was the toil-ing labourers and 1st May was a day to pay homage to the martyrs of Chicago and sa-lute to the workers, farmers and laborers of Pakistan.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that during the regime of Imran Khan, the oppression of workers, farmers and salaried class had never happened before in the history of the country. Imran Khan’s policies favoring his ATMs and rich classes have set new records of inflation, unemployment and poverty in Pakistan, the consequences of which are now being felt by the entire nation, he expressed.
Today, PPP is struggling to save the poor people from the destruction unleashed by Im-ran Khan regime.
The PPP Chairman said that it was an open history that the voice and struggle for the rights of the working class in this country and their implementation started after the es-tablishment of the PPP.
For the first time in the country, the labour policy was issued and the rights of trade unions were introduced in the country by former Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on February 10, 1972.
He said that former Prime Minister Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto took revolution-ary measures for the rights and protection of workers during her shortest period of government. Awami government led by former President Asif Ali Zardari launched the Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme (BESOS) and gave free shares to the em-ployees of national institutions while whopping increases were made in the salaries and pensions.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the People’s Government of Sindh has enact-ed legislations like tripartite labor policy, Home Based Women Workers Act and Occu-pational Safety and Health (OSH). Making landless women farmers owners of their ag-ricultural lands and lifting lakhs of families out of poverty through union council level anti-poverty program is also a distinction of the People’s government.
The PPP Chairman urged the labor and working class people of the country to join the PPP and make it more powerful so that it gives and protects their rights and reiterated his determination that the Party will not retreat even an inch from the mission of safe-guarding the rights of the working classes of Pakistan and their prosperity.
