Karachi, April 30, 2023 (PPI-OT):Chairman Pakistan People’s Party and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that there will be no compromise on labour rights because if the labour are prosperous, then Pakistan is prosperous adding that Party will give representations to the labourers in all elected bodies following its manifesto. He said PPP will start schemes like Benazir Mazdoor Card for the workers across the country like Sindh, if people gave mandate to his Party in the upcoming general elections.
In his message on the eve of International Labour Day issued from Media Cell Bilawal House, the PPP Chairman said that the backbone of the society is the toiling labourers and 1st May is a day to pay homage to the martyrs of Chicago and salute 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 has 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. Today PPP is struggling to save the poor people from the destructions unleashed by Imran Khan regime.
The PPP Chairman said that it is an open history that the voice and struggle for the rights of the working class in this country and their implementation started after the establishment 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 Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on February 10, 1972. He said that Prime Minister Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto took revolutionary measures for the rights and protection of workers during her shortest period of government. Awami government led by President Asif Ali Zardari launched the Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme (BESOS) and gave free shares to the employees 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 enacted legislations like tripartite labor policy, Home Based Women Workers Act and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). Making landless women farmers owners of their agricultural 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 Party 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 safeguarding the rights of the working classes of Pakistan and their prosperity.
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