Despite late dissemination of information, and GE13 maniia, more than 1,000 workers were reported to have come for the MTUC May Day event - including some 270 migrant workers...
Whist Pakatan Rakyat has not clearly ventilated their promises to improve worker and trade union rights, BN has certainly proven that they have eroded rights of workers and trade unions during their rule. Hence, workers in Malaysia may have no choice but to support the Opposition and reject the BN. This rejection of the BN is a show of workers' anger at a government that forgot that worker's rights and welfare (and those of their families) should ALWAYS be priority concern of any government - not the good of employers and businesses...
BN has removed security of employment - the right to employment until retirement... the government allowed the use of short-term employment contracts to be used without any 'restrictions' - a employer now employs Abu on a 1 year contract, and then despite the fact that the work Abu is doing still exist, the employer then employs Rama on another 1 year contract...What about a 2 month pregnant women - will she be employed? What about an elderly worker? Without the right to regular employment until retirement workers will suffer...
BN has allowed employers to totally avoid employment relationship. Now, you may be working at TELCOM but you are not an employee of TELCOM - you are just a worker supplied by ABC Sdn Bhd to work at TELCOM. Yes, you are working just like other TELCOM employees - but you are not AN EMPLOYEE of TELCOM - so you cannot benefit from the Collective Bargaining Agreement between TELCOM and the UNION - Why? You are not an employee. You can lose you job suddenly - A phone call from ABC saying that you need not go to TELCOM and work on Monday onwards, and you say 'Why?' and ABC says they do not need you anymore. And you ask ABC, where will I have to go work on Monday? ABC says sorry, I have no work for you... BYE BYE. No Domestic Inquiry...no ....That is why MTUC and many others have been calling for the abolition of the 'Contractor for Labour System' - but this BN government does not care for workers - and despite so many protest actions, the BN government gave statutory recognition to the 'contractor for labour'...and their practices.
The list goes on and on...
A vote for BN will send the message that we, workers and trade unions are OK with all you did to worker rights and welfare. Well, if the Opposition wins and governs and do nothing to restore and improve rights of workers and unions, in less that 5 years we will VOTE THEM OUT... Remember, we have the POWER to decide who be given the opportunity to GOVERN MALAYSIA for thee next 5 years...and thereafter.. and so, we will vote wisely this time...
Sambutan Hari Pekerja 2013
Lebih dari 1000 pekerja telah berhimpun di tiga lokasi dan memulakan perarakan menuju ke Ibu pejabat MTUC.
Kontigen-kontigen dari pelbagai kesatuan gabungan telah hadir dengan banner masing-masing bagi menunjukkan semangat dan sokongan terhadap sambutan Hari Mei ini.
Dalam ucapan Mohd Khalid Atan, presiden MTUC menegaskan “MTUC akan tetap meneruskan perjuangan selagi hak-hak kaum pekerja belum dibela dan terlaksana” dan beliau menuntut sembilan tuntutan kaum pekerja diberi keutamaan oleh mana-mana bakal kerajaan yang akan menerajui kerajaan
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Seterusnya Mantan Presiden MTUC Syed Shahir menyeru agar Hari Mei ini dihargai dan semangat perjuangan perlu dikekalkan supaya hak-hak kaum pekerja tidak terhakis atas nama pembangunan.
N Gopal Kishnam, menjelaskan bahawa sebagai tambahan katanya “tiga perkara perlu diberi keutamaan oleh kerajaan iaitu penyumber keluar pekerja harus dihentikan segera, memberi pengiktirafan bagi penubuhan kesatuan memandangkan hanya 9 peratus pekerja di Negara ini yang berkesatuan dan pembaikpulihan undang-undang pekerja kearah memberi kebajikan sejagat kepada kaum pekerja.”
Majlis sambutan ini juga telah disertai oleh 270 pekerja asing.
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