Recognize Sabah Timber Industry Employees’ Union, Stop Wage Theft practice! - A LLRC Media Statement(BM&Eng)

Kenyataan Media oleh Gabungan Reformasi Undang-Undang Perburuhan pada 21hb September 2020 di Shah Alam

Mengiktiraf Kesatuan Pekerja Industri Kayu Sabah dan menghentikan amalan Pencurian Upah!

Gabungan Reformasi Undang-Undang Buruh (LLRC), sebuah gabungan besar 58 Kesatuan Sekerja dan NGO, menyeru agar hak pekerja-pekerja perkayuan yang menyertai Kesatuan Pekerja Industri Kayu Sabah (KPPIPS) dan rundingan secara kolektif dengan majikan mereka dilindungi.

Hak mereka untuk berunding secara kolektif telah dinafikan sejak tahun 1991 kerana pertarungan undang-undang yang berpanjangan dalam tuntutan pengiktirafan ke atas Sabah
Forest Industry. Penafian hak keatas KPPIPS untuk berunding berkenaan upah dan kebajikan pekerja sudah selama 29 tahun.

Cukup, cukuplah! Kami menggesa kepada para Yang Berhormat dan calon pilihanraya negeri Sabah membantu menyelesaikan nasib KPPIPS dengan menghentikan penghapusan kesatuan oleh Industri Perhutanan Sabah dan segera mengiktiraf kesatuan.

Selain itu, kami ingin menarik perhatian orang awam mengenai isu kecurian gaji di Syarikat Fu Yee di Tawau dan beberapa syarikat gabungan Persatuan Industri Perkayuan Sabah (STIA). Syarikat Fu Yee telah memaksa pekerja untuk menerima 50 peratus upah tanpa persetujuan pekerja, dan mengintimidasi anggota KPPIPS untuk memaksa mereka untuk menyertai kesatuan dalaman.

LLRC meminta komitmen daripada kesemua YB dan calon untuk menamatkan penghapusan kesatuan dan melindungi hak asasi ahli-ahli KPPIPS.

Pertanyaan media sila hubungi Setiausaha KPPIPS Pn. Engrit Liaw di 013-8512436 atau Pengerusi LLRC N. Gopalkishnam 019-3174717.

Terima kasih.

Yang benar,

N. Gopal Kishnam &
Irene Xavier

Pengerusi Bersama

Gabungan Reformasi Undang-Undang Buruh

 

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Press Statement by Labour Law Reform Coalition on 21 September 2020 in Shah Alam

Recognize Sabah Timber Industry Employees’ Union, Stop Wage Theft practice!

The Labour Law Reform Coalition (LLRC), a broad coalition of 58 Trade Unions and NGOs, calls on all political parties and Sabah election candidate to protect timber workers’ right to join Sabah Timber Industry Employees’ Union (STIEU) and bargain collectively with their employer.

Their right to collective bargaining has been violated due to prolonged legal battles on claim for recognition filed by Sabah Forest Industry since 1991, this denies STIEU’s right to bargain for workers’ wages and welfares for 29 years.

 

Enough is enough! We urge the honourable members and election candidates resolve the plight of STIEU by putting an end of union busting by Sabah Forest Industry and recognize the union immediately.

Moreover, we would like to draw the public attention on wage theft issue at Fu Yee in Tawau and few members of Sabah Timber Industry Association (STIA). The Fu Yee company forced
workers to accept 50 per cent of wages without consent of workers, and intimidated STIEU members in order to force them to join an in-house union.

LLRC seeks political parties and election candidates’ commitment to end all these union busting and protect the fundamental rights of STIEU members.

Media enquiry please contact the general secretary of STIEU Engrit Liaw at 013-8512436 or LLRC chairperson N.Gopal Kishnam 019-3174717.

Thanks.

 

Yours Sincerely,

N. Gopal Kishnam &
Irene Xavier

Co-Chairpersons

Labour Law Reform Coalition

NOTE - Merely highlighting a media statement issued by others on worker rights, etc