May 1st celebrations by Global Network Pakistan

Global Network member in Pakistan (Labour Education Foundation, LEF) and the National Trade Union Federation will be jointly organizing workers' rallies in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Islamabad on 1^st May. LEF will also be organizing a joint rally of Glass Bangle workers in Hyderabad along with Home Based Women Workers Federation. A protest rally and sit-in outside the jail in Faisalabad is also being organized jointly by LEF and Labour Qaumi Movement. Four leaders of Labour Qaumi Movement (power loom textile workers union) in Faisalabad are still in jail due to terrorism charges for raising their voice for minimum wage implementation last year.