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Muhammad Naseem Rao ( ur, محمد نسیم راؤ ) is a veteran & well known Pakistani labour leader born in influential family of Sindh on 12 April 1962 at Nabisar Road Tehsil
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Biography

He is the elected Central General Secretary of the Pakistan's oldest & 2nd largest industry-wise union namely Railway Worker’s Union (Open Line), representing more than 90,000 workers all over in Pakistan. RWU is working since 1948 after partition of sub-continent. It is an affiliated with
International Transport Workers’ Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership ...
(ITF), a
global union federation A global union federation (GUF) is an international federation of national trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. Historically, such federations in the social democratic tradition described as international t ...
. He is also a Central President of Pakistan Transport & General Workers' Federation, it is the largest federation of Pakistan in transport sector.


Education

He is a highly qualified person with master's degrees in Economics & Law. He did Masters in
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from
Sindh University The University of Sindh ( ur, ; sd, سنڌ يونيورسٽي; informally known as Sindh University) is a public research university in Pakistan located in the city of Jamshoro. It is one of the oldest universities in Pakistan and was certifi ...
Jamshoro &
LL.B Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...
from Karachi University.


Trade union career

1982, he started his political activities from the platform of student union. In this tenure, he also participated in left-wing movement. In 1986, he joined
trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
being as an activist. He is working in trade union movement since 1986. He has honour to work with the founder of Labour Movement in Sub-Continent Mr. Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim (Late). He has honor to represent Pakistan at International Conferences, Seminar in different countries. He also had an honor to represent railway workers before Senate Standing Committee on Railways. For the first time in the history of Pakistan, any labour leader was called by the Senate of Pakistan to address workers' issues.


Awards

On 1 May 2009, World Labour Organisation (WLO) London awarded him Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim Yaadgari Award on his hard work & non-stop effort in labour movements at national & international level.


References


Web content

* Online Legal Advice – Leading News Resource of Pakistan. Web. . * Daily Express – Leading News Resource of Pakistan. Web. . * Pakistani Globe – News Resource . * Monthly Amami Jamhoriat Column. . * International The News Pakistan – Leading Newspaper. . * International Transport Workers' Federation: Restructuring of the railway industry in Pakistan – Preparing unions to influence the process * Dawn News – Call to bring back railway on track. . * Dawn News – Railway unions to stop trains if workers sacked. * Workers to resist PR privatisation. . * Proposals submitted to resolve Railways crises , The Nation https://web.archive.org/web/20120626025121/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/21-Mar-2010/Proposals-submitted-to-resolve-Railways-crises * Staying on track : Railway workers demand Rs40b bailout package http://labourwatchpakistan.com/?p=2883 * Rail workers reject privatization of trains, demand transparency in PR affairs , Pakistan New

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Muhammad Naseem Living people 1962 births Pakistani trade unionists University of Karachi alumni University of Sindh alumni