ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said the PPP will always stand by labour class and will never allow anyone to usurp their rights in the name of privatisation. In his message of on the Labour Day, former president said the PPP pays homage to the workers within the country and throughout the world who have made huge sacrifices in the struggle for protecting labour rights. “Wealth, like power, has this strange behaviour; the more one has it the more one craves for it. The rich are thus getting richer and the powerful by encroachment becoming even more powerful. In a truly welfare society, the powerful must be restrained from trample the weak and capital must not be allowed to exploit labour class,” he said. “At a time when the rich are becoming richer and the poor getting poorer it is important to revisit the relationship between the capital, labour and the skill with a view to removing distortions in this triangular relationship,” the former president said in his message. Workers are the backbone of the society, he said, adding the PPP will always stand by them in their fight for dignity and rights. “The struggle for improving the working conditions of workers and protection from exploitation is a continuous one and the party will continue its struggle to secure the rightful place of workers in the society.” He said that the previous PPP government reinstated sacked employees, regularised contract workers, restored trade union activities and made the workers share holders in state-run enterprises. The party also made legislation providing for legal remedies against any unlawful dismissals. He vowed the PPP will not permit any reversal of these policies.