MALAYSIA:::Suhakam meets MTUC, MEF and MHR officials. / Isu 'Union Busting': Suhakam temui MTUC, MEF dan wakil Kementerian Sumber Manusia.

SATU sesi perbincangan bersama MTUC, Persekutuan Majikan-majikan Malaysia (MEF) dan Kementerian Sumber Manusia berkaitan isu "Union Busting" telah diaturkan oleh Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (Suhakam) pada 23hb Februari 2015.

Beberapa pegawai utama MTUC dan pemimpin-pemimpin kesatuan gabungan termasuk Presiden NUBE, Sdr Micchael Tan dan Setiausaha Agungnya Sdr J Solomon telah berlangsung dalam suasana mesra dan konstruktif.

Pertemuan ini diadakan susulan memorandum yang dikemukakan oleh MTUC kepada Suhakam tahun lalu menggesa agar segala bentuk usaha 'menghapuskan' kewujudan kesatuan sekerja dan pelanggaran hak pekerja di negara dihentikan.

MALAYSIA:::MAS unions to protest planned job culls

Troubled airlines to lay off at least 6,000 under structuring plan beginning April.

KUALA LUMPUR: Several unions are expected to protest the retrenchment of 6,000 workers when Malaysian Airline System Bhd, the new company that is emerging from financially troubled Malaysian Airlines, begins its RM6 billion restructuring exercise in April.

The airlines has 20,000 workers.

There are at least nine worker unions and associations in the airline company and a source from one of the unions told The Edge Financial Daily, “Yes, we are preparing (to stage a protest), looking at the present situation.”

MALAYSIA:::MTUC and Trade Unions Can Help End Human Trafficking and Worker Exploitation

Malaysian Trade Union Congress (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 government. We note that Ms Joy Ngozi Ezeilo had recently indicated that she was committed to continue consulting with, amongst others, workers unions in the struggle to eliminate human trafficking.