Islamabad, April 30 2008: Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Party would not abandon the labour, the peasants, the fisher folk and the wage earners in their struggle for emancipation and freeing themselves from the shackles of exploitation.

In a message on May Day he said that the PPP had always supported the causes of the workers and would continue to support them in their struggle for their rights.

He said that the PPP has always derived its strength from the working classes of Pakistan and it had always fought for their rights and will continue to do so in the future as well.

He said that the Prime Minister had already announced in his first speech that the anti-labour legislations including the IRO 2002 and other anti labour legislation would be reviewed by the Parliament and the rights of the workers restored..

Senator Asif Ali Zardari also deplored that the previous regime had thrown out of jobs thousands of poor people from different organizations in the name of downsizing and rightsizing. He said that as promised by the Party the cases of retrenched workers in different organizations would be reviewed by the government and an effort made to reinstate the sacked employees.

He also directed the labour wing, of the Party, People’s Labour Bureau to hold meetings and rallies to highlight the labour issues and express the Party’s solidarity with the working classes.

The PPP Co-Chairman also paid rich tribute to the Chicago martyrs for their struggle against oppressive socio-economic system a century ago. Their sacrifices and courage awakened the workers and kindled the labour movements in many countries of the world, he said.

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