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Malaysian Trades Union Congress Feb-Mac 2015
MTUC Calls for Emergency Financial
Assistance for Workers Out of Work
MTUC urges the government to immediately put in place an
emergency relief scheme for the suddenly unemployed as they seek
new employment. Like the recent floods, unemployment can also come
suddenly and unexpectedly, and affected workers and their families
will need some emergency help to survive the situation and get back
on their feet.
The worker in Malaysia, if he/she were to lose their job,
requires im-
mediate emergency financial assistance whilst he looks for
another employ-
ment. Today, the worker is burdened with monthly financial
obligations like
food, clothing, basic amenities (water, electricity, sewage
bills, telecommuni-
cation and television), healthcare, transportation and childrens
education.
Additionally, most workers have monthly financial obligations to
make pay-
ments towards home and car loans.
As such, if a worker is suddenly wrongfully dismissed, it
creates great
financial problems to the worker and their families, and there
is an urgent
need to put in place an emergency unemployment assistance scheme
as is
now present in many countries, including neighbouring Thailand.
This assis-
tance would be temporary in nature, lasting possibly for a
period of maybe not
more than 6 -12 months, being the time required for the out of
job worker to
find a suitable new employment. Without such emergency financial
assis-
tance, the unemployed can very easily slide into abject poverty
losing their
home, having their car towed away, their furniture and household
appliance re
-possesed
MTUC urges that Malaysia immediately put in place this necessary
social protection for workers that find themselves suddenly with no
employ-ment and income, will prevent these workers and their
families from sliding
down the slippery slope of poverty. N.Gopal Kishnam, Setiausaha
Agung
Sambutan Hari Mei 2015 akan diadakan di Komplek Sukan Panasonic,
Sek 21 Shah Alam, pada 1hb Mei 2015 pagi.
Semua kesatuan gabungan diminta mengambil bahagian dan memberi
sokongan sepenuhnya bagi menjayakannya.
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Feb-Mac 2015 MTUC
MEMORANDUMMEMORANDUMMEMORANDUMMEMORANDUM
Nasib dan Masa Depan 6,000 Pekerja MAS
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23hb Mar 2015, Crystal Crown Hotel Petaling Jaya - Sidang Media
Solidariti bagi 6000 Pekerja MAS yang bakal dibuang kerja - Badan
Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia yg hadir terdiri dari MTUC,UNI-MLC,TUF,
GLC Union,
PSI & ASEATUC. Bersatu Teguh Demi Pekerja!
MEMORANDUM Nasib dan Masa Depan 6,000 Pekerja MALAYSIAN AIRLINES
SYSTEM (MAS)
Pemimpin-Pemimpin Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia mengadakan sidang
akhbar di Hotel Crystal Crown, Petaling Jaya pada 23
Mar 2015 bersama:-
1. Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) 2. UNI-Malaysia Labour
Centre (UNI-MLC) 3. Kongres Kesatuan Kesatuan Sekerja
Dalam Syarikat GLC 4. Penswastaan (GLC) 5. International
Transport Federation (ITF) 6. Public Services International
Malaysia (PSI)
7. ASEAN Trade Union Council (ASEATUC)
Tujuan utama adalah bagi menyampaikan rasa bimbang terhadap
nasib dan masa depan 6,000 pekerja MAS yang bakal diberhentikan
kerja akibat dari pen-strukturan semula syarikat penerbangan
kebanggaan
Negara seperti yang dilaporkan oleh pihak media.
Kehilangan 6000 pekerjaan kepada pekerja Syarikat
MAS adalah sesuatu yang amat serius dan bakal
menghilangkan punca pendapatan ahli keluarga mere-
ka. Syarikat MAS juga merupakan Syarikat Pertalian
Kerajaan (Government Link CompanyGLC) dan kepu-
tusan memberhentikan 6000 pekerja bakal memberi
impak yang negatif kepada dasar-dasar penswastaan
negara yang dicetuskan oleh Mantan Perdana Menteri
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Panasonic Malaysia dengan kerjasama kesatuan EIWU telah memberi
6 unit air cond-Penghawa
dingin kepada MTUC pada 9hb Februari 2015. Majlis ini
berlangsung di Tingkat 6 MTUC Subang Jaya. Majlis ini telah
dihadiri oleh Presiden MTUC, Sdra
Mohd Khalid Atan bersama Setiausaha Agung Sdra N. Gopal
Kishnam.
Panasonic Malaysia memberi Penghawa dingin kepada MTUC
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Feb-Mac2015 MTUC
Kesatuan Eksekutif Airod Sdn Bhd V. Airod Sdn Bhd Industrial
Court, Kuala Lumpur: P Iruthayaraj D Pap-pusamy Employees' Panel:
Kunasegaran Sankara Pillai Employers' Panel: Chung Boon Poh Award
No. 1121 Of 2014 [Case No: 4/3-406/12]
The union contended inter alia that the company had at-tempted
to promote the President of the union, with-out his consent, to a
managerial grade to hinder his participation in the lawful
activities of the union and had been involved in union busting
activities. The compa-ny on the other hand contended that it had
not been in-volved in any union busting activities as the President
of the union, despite his promotion, had remained its Presi-dent.
The sole issue that arose for determination before the Court was
whether the company had been in contra-vention of s. 4(1) and (2)
of the IR Act 1967. It is obvious that the company had taken
vari-ous steps or measures to interfere and disrupt the union's
activities by attempting to promote En. Shatiri as the union
President (without obtaining his agree-ment) to the Managerial
Grade in order to place him out-side the scope of union
representation. Besides this the company even demoted En. Shatiri
to his former post and grade when in the first place he had not
accepted the said promotion. These actions of the company have been
actually captured in the union's complaint under ss. 4, 5and 7 of
the IR Act, 1967 as highlighted above [see pp. 28 to 31 of Bundle
UB1 i.e The company must respect and give credence and practical
effect to past practice of seeking the union member's acceptance
before promoting him.)
Accordingly the court has ruled that union Presi-dent's
promotion is wrongful and consequently his demo-tion has also been
ruled as being unlawful and/or an un-fair labour practice, this
court therefore based on equity and good conscience logically
orders and directs that with immediate effect the Company shall
remove from its rec-ords the promotion and demotion of En. Shatiri
pursuant to the powers contained in s. 30(6) of the IR Act 1967 as
there is clear rational nexus between union's complaint and the
just and equitable relief granted by this court in order to resolve
the dispute under reference pursuant to s. 8(2A) of the IR Act
1967.
Award number :AWARD NO. 156 OF 2014 [CASE NO: 1/1-1047/13] The
Company (Airod) objected to the appoint-ment of Shatiri bin Mansor
( The Executive Secretary) to represent the complainant (Trade
Union of Workers )in the present proceedings on the ground that he
is not au-thorised under the Rules which govern the complainant
which is a trade union of workmen. They contend that only an
officer of the complainant may represent the com-plainant in the
present proceedings. Since Shatiri bin Mansor's services had been
terminated by the Company (Airod) with effect 1 September 2013, he
therefore was no longer eligible to be a member of the complainant.
The issue was solely to determine whether Shatiri bin Mansor(ES)
could represent the complainant .
The complainant filed an affidavit in reply which was affirmed
by Haji Shatiri bin Mansor on 27 December 2013 (referred to as "the
second affidavit"). The complain-ant contended that they had the
power to employ an Ex-ecutive Secretary pursuant to s. 29(1), Trade
Unions Act 1959 and Peraturan 11(3) of the Rules of the
complain-ant. Further, the Annual General Meeting of the
complain-ant which was held on 18 August 2006 had authorised the
Executive Council of the complainant to employ an Executive
Secretary vide exhibit SM-1 which is annexed
to the second affidavit.
The Industrial Court in awarding invoked Section 27(2)(a),
Industrial Relations Act 1967 inter-alia reads as fol-lows: (2) If
any question arises before the court as to whether the person
representing a party under subsection (1) is -(a) an officer or
employee of the trade union which he represents; the question shall
be determined by the President or the Chairman, whose decision
thereon shall be final. Accordingly held that Shatiri bin Mansor is
au-thorised to represent the complainant in the present
pro-ceedings as he is an employee of the complainant( Trade Union
of Workers)
Union busting activities by Airod Sdn Bhd: Promote the President
of the union, without his consent
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Feb -Mac 2 015 MTUC
FORUM GST Forum GST sehari telah diadakan di MTUC pa-da11hb
Februari 2015 di Wisma MTUC. Forum ini telah dihadiri loleh ebih
dari 100 pemimpin kesatuan yang mewakili lebih dari 30 kesatuan
sekerja. Penceramah utama terdiri dari YB Dr Dzulkefly Ah-
mad dari Pusat Penyelidikan PAS yang telah membentangkan tajuk
Implikasi dan kesan GST terhadap kos hidup rakyat berpendapatan
rendah dan keluarga mereka dari perspektif kritikal , diikuti oleh
Encik Mohammad Sabri bin Saad, Penolong Kanan Pengarah Kastam(1)
dari Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia dengan tajuk Perlaksanaan GST,
dii-kuti dengan Puan Norlaila Zainal, Pengarah Bahagian
Penguatkuasaan, akta Kawalan Harga, Kemenretian Dalam Neger i ,
Koperas i dan Kepenggunaan dengan tajuk Akibat dari Perlaksaan GST
manakala pen-ceramah terakhir Encik Thangaraj N. Mohanasundram
seorang pakar ekonomis membentangkan kertas kerja bertajuk
Bagaimana menghadapi GST secara hemat. Forum sehari telah memberi
maklumat yang berguna kepada semua peserta yang menyertainya.
80% pencarum KWSP cecah usia 55 dengan simpanan bawah garis
kemiskinan Lebih 75% daripada 14 juta pencarum Kumpulan Wang
Simpanan Pekerja berpendapatan kurang daripada RM2,000 dan 15%
memperoleh di antara RM2,000 dan RM5,000 sebulan yang menyebabkan
simpanan tidak mencukupi untuk menjalani kehidupan persaraan dengan
selesa. The Malaysian Insider, 13 Mac, 2015.
Hampir 80% daripada pekerja yang akan mencecah umur 55 tahun
pada tahun ini tidak akan mempunyai duit sim-panan mencukupi dalam
Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP) untuk hidup atas garis
kemiskinan, menurut perangkaan yang dikeluarkan ketua pegawai
eksekutifnya. Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan (gambar, kiri) berkata,
para pekerja ini tidak akan mempunyai jumlah sim-panan KWSP
mencukupi bagi membolehkan mereka hidup dengan RM800 sebulan, yang
hampir dengan pendapa-
tan purata bagi garis kemiskinan Malaysia iaitu RM830, untuk 20
tahun akan datang.
Ini kerana kebanyakan daripada mereka memperoleh gaji yang
rendah apabila mereka mula menyumbang kepada dana dalam tahun
1980-an, dan terus mendapat gaji rendah sehingga umur 55, kata
Shahril yang tidak
memberikan jumlah sebenar bagi kelompok yang akan bersara
ini.
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Feb-Mac 2015 MTUC
KONVENSYEN KEPIMPINAN PEKERJA KONVENSYEN KEPIMPINAN PEKERJA
KONVENSYEN KEPIMPINAN PEKERJA KONVENSYEN KEPIMPINAN PEKERJA
NEGERI SELANGORNEGERI SELANGORNEGERI SELANGORNEGERI SELANGOR
28 Mac,BUKIT JALIL, KUALA LUMPUR. Konvensyen Kepimpinan Pekerja
Negeri Selangor anjuran MTUC Selan-gor dan Wilayah Persekutuan
dengan kerjasama Majlis Tin-dakan Persekutuan Negeri Selangor (MTP)
berjaya men-capai objektifnya. Kehadiran pemimpin kesatuan daripada
beberapa sektor swasta dan awam. Kira-kira 100 orang hadir termasuk
jemputan panel dan Pengerusi MTP, YB Datuk Noh b Hj Omar.Panel
daripada Jabatan Tenaga Kerja dihadiri oleh Ketua Pengarah Tn Hj
Arsi Abd Wahab, mana-kala dari pihak PDRM ialah ASP Tn EU dari IPK
Kuala Lum-pur. Setiausaha Agung MTUC Sdra Gopal Kishnam telah
merasmikan konvensyen tersebut di Bukit Jalil Kelab Golf dan
Resort. Pada sebelah petang peserta-peserta telah membentangkan
resolusi pekerja negeri Selangor untuk dibahaskan dan seterusnya
menyerahkan kepada Pengerusi MTP. Antara RESOLUSI yang dipersetujui
adalah seperti berikut;
1. Menghormati Keluhuran Perlembagaan Persekutuan dengan
Mengiktiraf dan Mengubal Undang-Undang yang Menyekat Hak Kebebasan
Berkesatuan dan Hak Bersuara Kaum Pekerja.
2. Meminda dan Memperkasakan Peruntukan Undang-Undang Buruh yang
Lapuk Dengan Deklarasi Prinsip-Prinsip Asasi dan Hak-Hak di Tempat
Kerja 1988 Pertubuhan Buruh Antarabangsa (Ilo) Declaration Of
Fundamental Principles and Rights At Work dan Mempraktikkan Agenda
Kerja Kepatutan (Decent Work Agenda) * Cuti Bersalin 90 Hari, 40
Jam Bekerja Seminggu, Pekerja Wanita Dilarang Bekerja Pada Waktu
Malam Bermula Jam 11 Malam Hingga 7 Pagi. 3. Meminda Akta
Perhubungan Perusahan 1967 yang Lebih Adil kepada Kedua-dua
Pihak.
4. Menghentikan Serta Merta Amalan Union Busting oleh
Syarikat Swasta dan Syarikat-Syarikat Berkaitan Kerajaan (GlC,
GOC).
5. Menghapuskan serta merta segala bentuk ancaman, Penindasan,
Tindakan yang Menghakis Kualiti Hidup dan Menggugat Kesejahteraan
dan Keharmonian Kaum Pekerja.
6. Mengutamakan Jaminan Pekerjaan (Employment and Job Security)
dan Menghapuskan Amalan Penyumberluaran (Out Sourcing/Contract for
Service) dan Penggajian Pekerja Secara Kontrak (Short Terms).
7. Pengambilan dan Pengurusan Pekerja-Pekerja Asing Hanya
Melalui Mekanisma Dua Pihak Kerajaan Ke Kerajaan Sahaja (Goverment
To Goverment). 8. Menggubal Akta Perkeso Agar Memberi Perlindungan
24 Jam Kepada Pencarum. Menyediakan Tabung Guaman untuk Membantu
Pekerja Yang Dibuang Kerja Penyerahan Resolusi ini diadakan dengan
cara yang simbolik dimana pekerja berarak membawa bendera serta
melaungkan kata-kata semangat. Seterusnya resolusi dibawa naik
kepentas dan diyerahkan kepada Datuk Seri Noh b Hj Omar untuk
tindakkan selanjutnya. Datuk Seri da-lam ucapannya memaklumkan
kesediaan beliau membantu kaum pekerja mengikut saluran yang betul
dan perundingan. Program berakhir jam 5.00 petang dengan kepuasan
jelas pada wajah pemimpin kerana telah memberi yang terbaik dalam
resolusi yang diserahkan.
Dilaporkan: MOHD KHAIRI B HJ MAN Setiausaha MTUC Bhg Selangor
& W.Persekutuan
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Feb -Mac2015-MTUC
Issues concern-Piket by FEC Piket-tunjuk perasan oleh Kesatuan
pekerja-pekerja
Perusahaan Letrik FEC Cables (M) sdn. Bhd.
Pertikaian wujud apabila syarikat enggan menunaikan
janji yang terkandung dalam Perjanjian bersama dengan
tidak membayar Bonus tahunan pada tahun 2014 dan
juga kenaikan gaji tahunan untuk tahun 2013 dan 2014.
Piket selama dua hari 25 dan 26 Februari telah berlang-
sung dari pukul 4.00 petang hingga 6.00 petang di Per-
siaran Raja Muda Shah Alam Industrial Estate Shah
Alam. Tindakan ini dilaksanakan mengikut peruntukan
termaktub dalam akta Perhubungan Perusahaan 1967,
seksyen 40.
Majlis tandatangan Memorandum
MTUC bersama Vietnam
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Pertemuan bersama SUHAKAM
Feb-Mac 2015-MTUC
MTUC pada 23hb Februari telah mengadakan perjumpaan dengan
SUHAKAM atas undangannya su-sulan dari memorandum yang dihantar
oleh MTUC bagi menangani permasalahan Union Busting Pro-gram
Workers Walk pada September 2014 bersama-sama MTUC cawangan
Selangor dan Wilayah. Pertemuan ini telah dipengerusikan oleh
Pesuruhjaya James Nayagam, dan tutut bersama ialah wakil dari JPP,
JHEKs, JTK dan MEF Dato Shamsuddin Bardan. MTUC telah diketuai oleh
Presiden Mohd Khalid Atan bersama Setiausaha Agung, Gopal Kishnam
bersama pegawai-pegawai utama MTUC dan MTUC Selangor dan Wilayah
Persekutuan.
Pertemuan Timbalan Presiden MTUC YB Abdullah Sani bersama-sama
dengan pemimpin dan ahli kesatuan Ba-hagian MTUC Johor pada 14 Mar
di Wisma NUBE Johor bagi mengenal pasti permasalahan
kesatuan-kesatuan dan di bawa ke Parlimen. Dilaporkan oleh Sdra
Shatiri, Pegawai Khas YB Abdullah Sani
Pertemuan bersama Bahagian MTUC Johor
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Feb-Mac2015-MTUC
Issues on
Foreign Workers MTUC Wants Migrant Workers to Pay the Same
Rate as Local Workers for Public Healthcare
MTUC wants migrant workers to pay the same rate as local workers
for public healthcare. Differential treatment of workers impacts on
worker solidarity, and can be perceived as union busting. It is
most disturbing to find out that migrant workers are also required
to pay a deposit of RM600 before they be warded in a public
hospital, and a deposit of RM1,200 if they are being warded for
surgery or for child birth. When the monthly minimum wage in
Peninsular Malaysia is RM900, and RM800 in Sabah and Sarawak, how
could anyone reasonably believe that a mi-grant workers will be
able to afford to pay such outrageous de-posits before they can be
hospitalised and receive required healthcare.
Migrant workers come to work in Malaysia because em-
ployers in Malaysia require workers, and the Malaysian
govern-
ment wants them to come. Migrant workers, usually coming
from poorer countries, come here to earn monies for
themselves
and their families/dependents back home.
The imposition of different laws and conditions on different
clas-ses of workers also is a great hurdle in the organizing,
forming and strengthening of trade unions in Malaysia. Both local
and migrant workers are members of one and the same union, and as
such policies and laws that creates particular problems to specific
classes of workers can also be perceived as union busting with the
objective of weakening unions. Unions cannot justify why fellow
union member, has to pay so much more to get healthcare just
because he comes from a different country. For unions, workers are
workers, and they all have to be treated equally irrespective of
religion, ethnicity, gender or nationality. MTUC urges that the
government to immediately ex-empt all migrant workers from having
to pay foreigner rates for usage of public facilities and services
of healthcare in Malaysia. Migrant workers, just like local workers
should be paying the same rates. MTUC PS 16 Feb 2015 - for more
info at www.mtuc.org.my
Wisma MTUC 10-5, Jalan USJ 9/5T, 47620 Subang Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: 03-80242953 Fax:03-80243225 website : www.mtuc.org.my;
email:mtucgeneral @gmail.com / disediakan oleh: Sdri.R.Rajeswari,
Setiausaha Penyelidikan
disahkan dan disemak : Sdra. N. Gopal Kishnam Setiausaha
Agung.
MTUC and Trade Unions Can Help
end Human Trafficking and Worker
Exploitation
MTUC verily believes that strong effective trade unions can
tackle the problem of trafficking in human persons, more so when in
Malaysia, the main problems is the exploitation of workers not
sexual exploitation or the removal of human organs. MTUC welcomes
the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons who
will be in Malaysia from 23 to 28 February 2015, at the invitation
of the Malaysian govern-ment. We note that Ms Joy Ngozi Ezeilo had
recently indicated that she was committed to continue consulting
with, amongst others, work-ers unions in the struggle to eliminate
human trafficking. Malaysias Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007
also do now clearly acknowledge that "trafficking in persons" or
"traffics in per-sons" includes forced labour or services, slavery
or practices similar to slavery, servitude, any illegal
activity
No one can fight worker exploitation
and protect workers rights better than the work-
ers themselves, and this can be best be done
by trade unions. This Malaysian Act, as it is
now, unfortunately, is lacking as it only focuses
on rescue and assistance, but does not help
victims access to justice and get their civil and
labour law remedies including monies still owing
to them by employers, compensation and other
damages.
MTUC PS 23 Feb 2015 - for more info at
www.mtuc.org.my