Resolution on
              Labourers’ problems

LAHORE, Jan 12: Jamaat-e-Islami Shoora has expressed concern over military government's anti-workers policies, saying they are working on foreign masters' agenda of downsizing, rightsizing and forced retrenchments which has pushed the unemployment to new heights.In a unanimously passed resolution, the JI Shoora observed that privatization of sensitive national institutions like PTCL and Wapda is against national interests but the government is selling them at peanuts while throwing tens of thousands of workers to starvation. Continuous and unjust increase in petrol prices has consequently raised the prices of every essential commodity making the lives of the poor hell.The Shoora demands increase in workers salaries in proportion to the price hike, halting of economic massacre of workers through privatization of sensitive departments, downsizing, rightsizing and forced retrenchments, all retrenched workers be reinstated, new avenues of employment be created by alleviating unemployment situation, presidential ordinance of removal from service be withdrawn which has mercilessly killed working class, MoD be withdrawn from Railways and trade union be restored while all the dismissed and transferred employees on charges of trade unionism be reinstated.It demands that right of trade unionism under Pakistani constitution and ILO convention be restored, contract labor system be abolished, all contract workers be regularized, concessions be given to local industrialists instead of multinational companies and thousands of closed factories be run again and national labour policy be enforced after having consensus between employees and employers. It demands that army be withdrawn from all civil institutions and deployed at the borders, economic policies must not be evolved under the dictation of world financial institutions nor the sensitive institutions be closed on their demand, and the policy of selling costly railways lands on peanuts be stopped which is rendering thousands of workers families homeless.