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About 1200 peasant farmers of the village of Karawang, Indonesia prepared to defend 350 hectares of farm lands that they have tended and survived off of for generations. The land in dispute has been designated by local Indonesian government for the expansion of a factory owned by Agung Podomoro and the people of Karawang seem
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RAWALPINDI, June 27: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on June 26 directed the higher education department Punjab to regularise the services of 70 women lecturers working in the garrison city for about 15 years.
Justice Shahid Jamil Khan issued the direction on a contempt petition filed by the lecturers against the education department for not complying with the high court order passed in 2012 for the regularisation of their services.
To a question, the secretary PPSC told the court that the department intended to regularise the services of the teachers under one-person one-seat formula. Under the formula, the PPSC had reserved the right to declare any candidate fail.
Under the formula, the PPSC had directed the lecturers to file affidavits before appearing in the examination, assuring the commission that they would not challenge its decision.
During the course of hearing, Justice Khan asked the secretary PPSC as to why the commission had asked the candidates to submit affidavits.
The court observed that no citizen could be deprived of their right to challenge any decision.
Hassan Maan, the counsel for the lecturers, said the higher education department had been flouting the court’s earlier order by not regularising the services of the lecturers. He said the PPSC had nothing to do with the regularisation of the teachers.
The secretary PPSC said the department had no objection to the regularisation of the lecturers’ services.
The secretary higher education also informed the court that the department had no issue in regularising the services of the teachers after a scrutiny of their educational credentials and checking their service record.
After the assurance, the court dismissed the case and directed the higher education department to regularise the services of the lecturers.
Published by Daily Dawn on June 27, 2014
आज वजीरपुर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र के गरम रोला कारखाने के मज़दूरों ने जन्तर-मन्तर पर विशाल प्रदर्शन किया। जन्तर-मन्तर से संसद मार्ग तक 500 की संख्या में मज़दूरों ने रैली निकाली और श्रम मंत्रालय तथा प्रधानमंत्री कार्यालय को अपना ज्ञापन सौंपा। ज्ञात हो कि पिछले बीस दिनों से गरम रोला कारखाने के मज़दूर गरम रोला मज़दूर एकता समिति के नेतृत्व में अपनी माँगों को लेकर हड़ताल पर हैं। गरम रोला एकता समिति के रघुराज ने बताया कि वजीरपुर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र में सरेआम श्रम कानूनों का उल्लंघन होता है। लेबर कोर्ट पास में ही नीमड़ी काॅलोनी में है लेकिन ठीक उनकी नाक के नीचे मज़दूरों का शोषण बदस्तूर जारी है। इसलिए मज़दूर इन कारखानों में श्रम कानूनों को लागू करवाने की अपनी माँग को लेकर हड़ताल पर हैं। वजीरपुर का यह वही औद्योगिक क्षेत्र है जहाँ लोहे को पिघला कर स्टेनलेस स्टील बनायी जाती है। बेहद खतरनाक और जोखिम भरे माहौल में मज़दूरों को बारह से चौदह घण्टे खटना पड़ता है। यहाँ न तो कोई न्यूनतम मज़दूरी दी जाती है और न ही किसी तरह की कोई सुरक्षा है। आए दिन दुर्घटनायें होती रहती हैं।
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KARACHI, June 26: Sindh High Court (SHC) on June 25 restrained authorities from terminating the contract of employees of Sindh Information, Science and Technology Department. A division bench headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan gave this interim order while hearing a petition filed by Akram Basher and 31 other contractual employees seeking regularisation of their services. The court issued notice to Sindh chief secretary and Information, Science and Technology Department secretary to file their comments. It adjourned the hearing of the case till July 14 where several other similar matters would be taken up. Counsel Zameer Hussain Ghumro submitted that petitioners were appointed on contractual basis in 2012 and 2013 in Information, Science and Technology Department on different posts through a legal procedure. He said that the provincial government had enacted Sindh Regularization of Ad-hoc and Contract Employees Bill, 2013. “According to the Act, employees appointed on ad-hoc and contract basis shall regularized after the enforcement of the Act,” said the counsel. Despite the promulgation of the Act, services of the petitioners were not being regularized, he said and added that instead, provincial authorities were bent upon terminating the contract of employee with mala fide. The court was requested to direct provincial authorities to regularize the service of the petitioners and restrain government from terminating their contracts.
Published by Daily Times on June 26, 2014
पूरे बावल क्षेत्र में पिछले 2 माह से अलग-अलग फ़ैक्टरियों के मज़दूर यूनियन बनाने की मांग को लेकर संघर्ष कर रहे है चाहे वे एहरेस्टी के मज़दूरों हो या पास्को के। इसलिए ये बात साफ़ है कि आज पूरे गुड़गांव-मानेसर-धारुहेड़ा-बावल में मज़दूरों की कुछ साझा मांग बनाती है जैसे यूनियन बनाने की मांग, ठेका प्रथा खत्म करने की मांग या जबरन ओवरटाईम खत्म करने की मांग। ये सभी हमारी साझा मांगें है इसलिए इनके खिलाफ़ भी हमें साझा संघर्ष करना होगा क्योंकि हम सभी मज़दूर जानते है मालिकों-सरकार-पुलिस-प्रशासन गठजोड़ एकजुट होकर मज़दूरों के खिलाफ़ है और इनके खिलाफ़ सिर्फ़ एक फ़ैक्टरी के आधार पर नहीं जीता जा सकता है बल्कि पूरे आटो सेक्टर या पूरे इलाके के मज़दूरों की फ़ौलादी एकता कायम करके ही मज़दूर विरोधी ताकतों को मुंहतोड़ जबाव दिया जा सकता है। इसलिए हमें अपने फ़ैक्टरी संघर्ष के साथ ही पूरे आटो सेक्टर के मज़दूरों की एकता कायम करने की लम्बी लड़ाई में जुटाना होगा।
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Bangalore (Press Note): An independent citizens’ report on the lockout of workers at the Stumpp, Schuele and Somappa factory on Hosur Road, Bangalore was released on 19/6/2014. Please find below the press release below. The full report can be downloaded from here.
Stumpp, Schuele and Somappa Springs Private Limited (SSSPL), a leading manufacturer of springs for cars, two-wheelers and commercial vehicles, declared a lockout at its Hosur Road factory for its contract workers on 1st March 2014, and five days later, also for its permanent workers. All these workers who were also union members were suddenly rendered jobless. Concerned about the lock-out incident, a group of citizens formed a team and decided to undertake a fact-finding investigation; the following are the details from the report. 
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