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  • Auqaf workers for regularisation

    June 18: Around 250 contract employees of Punjab Auqaf Department have appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Auqaf secretary to regularise them instead of recruiting new employees. Iffatullah, chairman Tanzeem-ul-Jihad, and Qazi Zaman Abbasi in an appeal to the CM have said around 250 employees working on daily wages are facing risk of losing jobs as the Auqaf Department has given an advertisement for new recruitments. They said instead of recruiting new employees, the department should adopt a procedure to regularise them. They said these employees had been serving in the department for years and now they deserved permanent jobs.

    Published by Daily The News on June 18, 2014

  • DHQ Hospital employees observe strike

    DHQ Hospital employees observe strike

    FAISALABAD, June 18: Employees of the DHQ Hospital on June 17 observed complete strike against non-payment of salaries to contract staffers and sacking of 59 employees for possessing fake degrees.

    The DHQ Hospital Employees Union closed all wards except emergency to register their protest. The employees also staged a sit-in outside the hospital. They demanded payment of salaries to the contract employees. Speaking on the occasion, the union leaders warned of strike for an indefinite period if their demands were not accepted in a week. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Faisalabad chapter protested against the appointment of bureaucrat Dr Ajmal as the Punjab Healthcare Commission chief executive officer and demanded reconstitution of the Punjab Healthcare Commission. Addressing a meeting, PMA general secretary Dr Irfan Ali said that there was no post of chief operating officer in the Punjab Healthcare Commission and regretted that the members of the Healthcare Commission Technical Advisory Committee were also bureaucrats. He said that the PMA would continue its protest till the reconstitution of the Punjab Healthcare Commission and demanded Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the provincial health minister to intervene and issue early orders to reconstitute the Punjab Healthcare Commission.

    Published by Daily The News on June 18, 2014

  • लुटेरे थैलीशाहों के लिए “अच्छे दिन” – मेहनतकशों और ग़रीबों के लिए “कड़े क़दम”!

    सिर्फ़ एक महीने के घटनाक्रम पर नज़र डालें तो आने वाले दिनों की झलक साफ़ दिख जाती है। एक ओर यह बिल्कुल साफ़ हो गया है कि निजीकरण-उदारीकरण की उन आर्थिक नीतियों में कोई बदलाव नहीं होने वाला है जिनका कहर आम जनता पिछले ढाई दशक से झेल रही है। बल्कि इन नीतियों को और ज़ोर-शोर से तथा कड़क ढंग से लागू करने की तैयारी की जा रही है। दूसरी ओर, संघ परिवार से जुड़े भगवा उन्मादी तत्वों और हिन्दुत्ववादियों के गुण्डा-गिरोहों ने जगह-जगह उत्पात मचाना शुरू कर दिया है। पुणे में राष्ट्रवादी हिन्दू सेना नामक गुण्डा-गिरोह ने सप्ताह भर तक शहर में जो नंगा नाच किया जिसकी परिणति मोहसिन शेख नाम के युवा इंजीनियर की बर्बर हत्या के साथ हुई, वह तो बस एक ट्रेलर है। इन दिनों शान्ति-सद्भाव और सबको साथ लेकर चलने की बात बार-बार दुहराने वाले नरेन्द्र मोदी या उनके गृहमंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने इस नृशंस घटना पर चुप्पी साध ली। मेवात, मेरठ, हैदराबाद आदि में साम्प्रदायिक दंगे हो चुके हैं और कई अन्य जगहों पर ऐसी हिंसा की घटनाएँ हुई हैं।

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  • The great train robbery: Swedish railroad strike against Veolia escalates

    The great train robbery: Swedish railroad strike against Veolia escalates

    Stockholm, Sweden — A train strike in southern Sweden has evolved into a major battle about worsening working conditions in the labor market here. In its drive to increase profits, the French union-busting company Veolia is meeting contract resistance from a unified union movement. Resistance is all the more intense because of the spread of […]

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  • Today,on 17th June,2014,we dip our blood in memory of Comrade Krishna Singh ,member of erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) Party Unity and secretary of the Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Samiti on his 30th death anniversary

                         A Personal Tribute by Harsh Thakor

    He was like a red flower blooming who planted red roses everywhere and illuminated the red flame of Maoism. Com Krishna Singh sowed the seeds of the revolutionary peasant movement in Bihar.

    This beloved comrade came from the ranks of the poor peasantry.

    He failed to complete his school education and took up a job as a casual

  • Brazil: Police Violently Evict Occupy Estelita in Recife

    In Recife, Brazil, an occupation known as “Occupy Estelita,” which has existed since May 21st to fight the “new Recife project,” was violently dispersed at 5 am today, June 17th. The “new Recife” project will destroy a historic area of the state capital to make way for the tallest towers in the city. Amnesty Brazil have

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  • Johns Hopkins Hospital Workers Take Strike Vote As Talks Resume

    Johns Hopkins Hospital Workers Take Strike Vote As Talks Resume

    By Doug Cunningham

    At Johns Hopkins Hospital two thousand members of SEIU 1199 took a strike authorization vote Tuesday as they try to resolve labor contract negotiations that started March 4th. The workers went on strike for three days in April. SEIU wants at least $15 an hour for workers who have been with Johns Hopkins for 15 years as well as raises for other workers. The union says it’s hoping for a positive resolution but to get there Johns Hopkins would have to make a lot of movement. The union was expected to resume contract talks with Johns Hopkins Tuesday.

     

  • Unpaid Leave Prevents 2.9 Million In U.S. From Caring For Sick Loved Ones

    By Doug Cunningham

    The Center For Economic and Policy Research is out with a new report documenting the need for a paid family medical leave program. The U.S. is the only wealthy nation that doesn’t mandate paid family and medical leave. The Center for Economic and Policy Research says each year more than two and a half million Americans are unable to take needed time off to care for a family member with a serious health condition because they can’t get paid time off. California, New Jersey and Rhode Island have all enacted paid family medial leave of their own.

     

  • Pakistani Police Open Fire on PAT Activists Killing 7, injuring 80

    Yesterday at 2.30 am, police from Lahore City raided secretariat office of Pakistani politician, former law professor and Sufi Islamic scholar Dr. Tahir Ul Qadri. Dr. Tahir is the founder of Pakistan Awami Tehreek-PAT (Pakistan People’s Movement)and currently resides in Canada. Dr. Tahir has an anti-government stance and just days ago announced plans to return to Pakistan on June

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  • Labourer loses life

    TAXILA, June 17: Another labourer has fallen victim to poor safety measures at Margalla stone crushing plants in Taxila.

    Adil Shahzad, 32, died after getting trapped in a stone crushing plant and receiving critical injuries.

    Published by Daily Dawn on June 17, 2014