Friday, April 30, 2021
Bilawal thanks people after PPP's victory in NA-249 by-poll
#Pakisatan - Former President Asif Ali Zardari’s May Day message
Former President Asif Ali Zardari in his message on the May Day has said that Pakistan Peoples Party will continue to protect the rights of workers.Asif Ali Zardari said that today workers, farmers and government employees are in extreme financial difficulties. The present selected government has usurped the rights of workers, employed in government industries including Pakistan Steel Mills, PIA and Railways and they are worried for their jobs. Asif Ali Zardari said that the founding chairman of the PPP, Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had given the workers the right to form unions so that the labour unions could collectively raise their voice for the rights of the workers.
Asif Zardari said that today farmers are worried because they are not getting return for their crops and labor. He said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto always raised her voice in favor of the workers. Zardari said that Rs. 25 billion had been set aside for the welfare of the workers, working in government enterprises, which has been stolen by the present government. He asked the workers not to allow anyone to usurp their institutions under the guise of privatization. Asif Zardari said that PPP will always be with the workers like in the past.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/24708/
Protection of rights of labourers is a cornerstone of the PPP’s ideology, Chairman PPP
Articles 11, 17, 18, 25 and 37(e) prohibit all forms of bonded labour, child labour, allow freedom of association, grant rights to unionise, provide citizens with the right to enter any lawful profession or trade without any discrimination, and secure humane and reasonable working conditions, he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari further pointed out that the first-ever comprehensive Labour Policy was also announced by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972 and with the subsequent legislation the scope of labour laws was enhanced and benefits like increased trade union rights, minimum wages, profit-sharing, statutory bonus, group insurance scheme, group incentive scheme, etc. were guaranteed. The Zia dictatorship reversed many of these progressive incentives and undid many of the gains Pakistan had made in securing labour rights, he added.
He said that Prime Minister Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto continued the PPP’s legacy by restoring labour rights and expanding benefit programs for the labour class. The PPP government led by President Asif Ali Zardari furthered this mission by offering partnerships to labourers in the state companies under the Benazir Employee Stock Option Scheme. Labour colonies with thousands of houses for laborers were also constructed, he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the selected government has only unleashed unemployment and poverty as millions have been turned jobless and pushed below the poverty line during last two and a half years.
The PPP Chairman pledged that his Party would continue to strive for the rights of the labour and working classes and it wouldn’t allow the selected regime to usurp their rights without facing strong resistance.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/24710/