Sunday, October 12, 2014

INDUSTRIALL:::Malaysian union finally gets foothold in electronics factory


Workers in Malaysia have voted for union representation at electronics manufacturer Infineon Technologies, despite strong pressure and union busting tactics by management.

ILO:::ASEAN integration to increase demand for workers – ILO-ADB study


Demand for high and low-skilled workers could increase by about 60 percent when ASEAN integration takes effect next year, a joint study by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) concluded.

“The AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) will have major benefits for the Philippines. However, to maximize these benefits, the government must take decisive actions now, especially in terms of labor and employment as too many workers are still in poor quality jobs,” Sukti Dasgupta, chief of the ILO Regional Economic and Social Analysis Unit, said at the ILO-ADB ASEAN integration forum.

MALAYSIA:::Budget an eyewash, no help to workers, says trade union group

Gopal laments the lack of benefits to workers in the private sector, especially in terms of minimum wage increase and cost of living allowance. - The Malaysian Insider pic, October 11, 2014.Gopal laments the lack of benefits to workers in the private sector, especially in terms of minimum wage increase and cost of living allowance





















Some seven million private sector workers who earn less than RM3,000 a month are no better off under Budget 2015 as it does not adequately address their financial concerns, the Malaysian Trade Union Congress said today.
Expressing disappointment with the budget proposals tabled by the prime minister yesterday, its secretary-general N.Gopal Kishnam said the umbrella body for trade unions had expected Datuk Seri Najib Razak to advise private sector employers to pay monthly cost of living allowance to workers.
"It was done in the 1970s when Najib's father Tun Abdul Razak was the prime minister and later, employers absorbed the allowance as part of the salary package,"