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KARACHI, April 30: The Chief Minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, on Sunday said the present government was committed to safeguarding the rights of labourers and it was taking long-term steps in bringing improvement in their living standards in this regard.
It was in this context that the government had increased their wages and fixed the minimum wage rate at Rs3,000 per month, he said in his message on the World Labour Day to be observed on May 1.
Arbab said that May 1 reminded everyone of the historic struggle put up by the workers of Chicago for their rights.
Altaf HUSSAIN: The working class will have to liberate themselves from contemptuous feudalism in order to live a comfortable life, said leader of the MQM, Altaf Hussain, in his Labour Day message.
This exploitative system has been abolished the world over but it has somehow managed to not only survive in Pakistan but strengthen itself as well, he remarked.
He regretted that feudal lords, forming just two per cent of the country's total population, had enslaved workers and the poor, be they in factories or on farms.
“This system must go,” he said, because the working classes, despite being the backbone of economy, were in a hapless situation.
"Because of the hold of the feudal lords on the policymaking structure, anti-labour policies have remained in vogue for years together."
In another message, he paid tributes to the party's first chairman, Azeem Ahmad Tariq, martyred on May 1, 1993 in his Azizabad house.—AFP/PPI
