KUALA LUMPUR, 1 April —
The National Union of Bank Employees NUBE will stage a picket on Saturday against three government-linked corporation GLC banks over alleged exploitative and discriminatory practices as Election 2013 approaches.
Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-pekerja Bank (NUBE) akan mengadakan bantahan pada Sabtu depan menentang tiga bank yang merupakan syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) yang didakwa mengamalkan eksploitasi dan diskriminasi, menjelang Pilihan Raya 2013.
Setiausaha agung NUBE, J. Solomon hari ini menuduh Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank), CIMB Bank dan Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad antaranya menahan bonus prestasi kepada pekerja kecuali Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO), enggan menyambung kerja ahli kesatuan melangkaui umur persaraan, mengurangkan gaji dan memberhentikan pekerja kerana terlibat dalam aktiviti kesatuan dan memberi layanan buruk kepada pekerja yang mengandung.
“Kami tidak menerima sebarang bantuan daripada Kementerian Sumber Manusia kerana mereka menyokong ini,” beritahu Solomon kepada The Malaysian Insider semalam.
“Kami telah buat banyak aduan. Mereka kata tidak buat banyak, terikat dengan mahkamah,” tambah beliau.
NUBE mewakili 5,000 pekerja Maybank, 4,000 pekerja CIMB dan 1,000 pekerja Bank Muamalat, menurut Solomon.
Kesatuan kerja itu mempunyai kira-kira 30,000 ahli.
Solomon berkata CIMB telah menolak permohonan oleh ahli kesatuan sejak dua tahun lalu untuk melanjutkan pekerjaan mereka
daripada usia persaraan 55 tahun kepada 57, sebaliknya mengambil pekerja-pekerja kontrak.
“Mereka menindas orang-orang yang telah berusia,” katanya.
Beliau mendakwa bahawa CIMB - yang diketuai oleh Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, adik kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - juga memberi layanan buruk keatas dua pekerja hamil pada akhir tahun lalu dan awal bulan ini.
“Di cawangan CIMB, Nilai di mana seorang pekerja yang 4 bulan mengandung, dia telah dijerit dan dimarahi oleh pengurus cawangan di hadapan orang lain sehinggakan dia pengsan,” kata Solomon.
“Insiden lain adalah di KL, di mana salah seorang wanita hamil telah diarah supaya berdiri sepanjang hari dan tidak diberi kerusi sedang melayani pelanggan,” katanya.
Solomon berkata Bank Muamalat memberitahu pekerjanya tidak memiliki wang yang cukup untuk memberi mereka bonus prestasi pada tahun lepas, tetapi menegaskan CEO mereka, Datuk Mohd Redza Shah Abdul Wahid telah menerima sejumlah 18 bulan bonus.
Kesatuan bank menambah Bank Muamalat telah melanggar perjanjian kolektif kerana enggan menyediakan kasut dan pakaian seragam kepada kakitangan tahun lepas dengan memberi alasan “bank kecil” dan kekurangan dana.
“Kami melaporkan kepada Bank Negara di bawah jabatan Syariah, tetapi Bank Negara mengambil tindakan,” kata Solomon, sambil menambah bahawa laporan itu telah dibuat tahun lepas.
Sulaiman juga mengkritik Maybank dengan menuduh mereka telah memotong gaji dan juga menghalang pegawai kesatuan untuk menyertai aktiviti-aktiviti kesatuan tahun lepas, menghalang pegawai kesatuan daripada berjumpa dengan pekerja yang ingin mengadu menyerang pegawai-pegawai kesatuan.
Beliau menambah seorang pekerja dari ibu pejabat Maybank telah diberi surat tunjuk sebab awal bulan ini kerana menyiarkan satu artikel Umno dan PAS di laman Facebook peribadi beliau.
“Artikel ini mengatakan bahawa ahli politik itu kini menyokong Umno kerana dia mempunyai beberapa pinjaman dan Umno membantu dia keluar daripada berhutang... dia dahulunya dalam PAS,” kata Solomon, tanpa menamakan ahli politik tersebut.
NUBE telah mengadakan bantahan menentang Maybank pada Februari tahun lepas ekoran pertikaian gaji yang kekal tidak berganjak.
Pemimpin kesatuan sekerja telah mengecam bank terbesar di negara ini dan syarikat perkhidmatan kewangan kerana didakwa melanggar undang-undang buruh dan sivil, serta perjanjian kolektif dan perjanjian antarabangsa yang dilancarkan pada tahun lepas disebuah rumah kesatuan yang Kesatuan Bukan Eksekutif Maybank (Mayneu).
“Apabila bank-bank swasta dan bank-bank asing mendapati GLC bersikap begini, mereka juga akan melakukan perkara yang sama,” kata Sulaiman hari ini.
Beliau menambah bahawa NUBE masih belum mengesahkan tempat untuk mengadakan bantahan pada Sabtu, tetapi berkata mereka akan mengadakan sidang media berasingan pada Selasa ini.
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Union plans to turn the screws on banks ahead of Election 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 — The National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) will stage a picket on Saturday against three government-linked corporation (GLC) banks over alleged exploitative and discriminatory practices as Election 2013 approaches.
NUBE general-secretary J. Solomon accused Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank), CIMB Bank and Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad today of exploiting and discriminating against workers, including withholding performance bonuses to employees except the CEO, refusing union members extensions beyond retirement age, deducting salaries and terminating the services of employees for participating in trade union activities, and mistreating pregnant workers, among others.
“We’re not receiving any help from the Human Resource Ministry because they’re supporting this,” Solomon told The Malaysian Insider yesterday.
“We have given so many complaints. They say they can’t do much, limited to the court,” he added.
NUBE represents 5,000 Maybank employees, 4,000 CIMB employees and 1,000 Bank Muamalat employees, according to Solomon. The trade union has some 30,000 members.
Solomon said CIMB has been rejecting applications by union members for the past two years to extend their employment from the retirement age of 55 to 57, handing their jobs over to contract workers instead.
“They are discriminating against senior people,” he said.
He claimed that CIMB — which is headed by Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, the brother of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak — also mistreated two pregnant employees late last year and earlier this month.
“At the CIMB branch in Nilai, whereby one worker, who was four months’ pregnant, she was actually shouted and screamed at by the branch manager in front of others to the extent that she fainted,” said Solomon.
“Another incident is in KL itself, where one of these pregnant women was actually told to stand the whole day and not given a chair when she’s attending to the customers,” he added.
Solomon said Bank Muamalat told its employees that there was not enough money to give them performance bonuses last year, but pointed out that its CEO Datuk Mohd Redza Shah Abdul Wahid received a whopping 18-month bonus.
The bank unionist added that Bank Muamalat violated its collective agreement by refusing to provide shoes and uniforms to staff last year on the basis of being a “small bank” and lacking funds.
“We reported to Bank Negara under the syariah department, but Bank Negara has not responded,” said Solomon, adding that the report was made last year.
Solomon criticised Maybank too, accusing it of deducting salaries and even terminating the services of employees for participating in union activities last year, preventing union officials from meeting employees with grouses, and assaulting union officials.
He said an employee from the Maybank headquarters was issued a show-cause letter earlier this month for posting an article on Umno and PAS on his personal Facebook page.
“The article says that this politician is now supporting Umno because he has some loans and Umno is helping him out with the loans... he’s formerly in PAS,” said Solomon, without naming the politician.
NUBE held a picket against Maybank in February last year on a long-standing dispute over stagnant wages.
Trade union leaders had slammed the country’s biggest bank and financial services company for allegedly violating labour and civil laws as well as collective agreements and international treaties in launching last year an in-house union called the Maybank Non-Executive Union (Mayneu).
“When private banks and foreign banks notice GLC banks acting in this manner, they will also do the same,” said Solomon.
He added that NUBE has yet to confirm the venue for its picket on Saturday, but said that it would hold a press conference tomorrow.
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