TOBA TEK SINGH: Rallies were organised to commemorate May Day in Faisalabad, Jhang, Gojra, Kamalia, Pirmahal, and Toba Tek Singh by trade unions and political parties.

In Toba, a motorcycle rally was led by former MPA Mian Muhammad Rafiq, Awami Workers Party (district president Zubair Chaudhry, and Pakistan Kissan Committee leader Ahmad Naeem Fateh.

The rally started from Chak 305 GB, and hundreds of peasants and farmers participated.

During the event, speakers paid tribute tothe martyrs of Chicago and called on the government to take concrete measures to address price hikes, poverty, and unemployment.

Another rally was organised by the Pakistan Haqooq Khalq Movement and Pakistan Bhatta Mazdoor Union.

It commenced from Gojra Road and at Shahbaz Chowk, Farooq Tariq, Muhammad Shabbir, Sajida Parveen, Gulzar Chishti, and the leader of the transgender community, Faizi Khawaja, addressed the participants.

They criticised the district administration for failing to implement the government`s notification, which stated that kilnowners were required to pay Rs1,850 per 1,000 bricks to their workers.

The speakers claimed that kiln owners were only paying Rs1,000 per 1,000 bricks.

In Faisalabad, the PPP held a public meeting at District Council Chowk, where party leaders asserted that it was only Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who had raised awareness among labourers and peasants about their rights.

SAHIWAL: The divisional chapter of the All Pakistan Clerks Association on the International Labour Day has demanded that the government construct free houses for each labourer.Haji Muhammad Saleem made this demand while addressing a rally of labourers, workers, and clerks at Sadar Chowk in Sahiwal.

He demanded that the salary of each labourer be equivalent to the value of one tola of gold.

He said that ongoing inflation and price hikes have severely affected labourers, daily wage earners, clerks, the public sector`s non-gazetted employees, and ad hoc employees.

He also called for labourers and workers to be given representation in parliament, highlighting that in the current election system, one cannot win an election without money.