MTUC TIDAK SETUJU CADANGAN KEMENTERIAN KESIHATAN

Cadangan kerajaan melalui Kementerian Kesihatan untuk mengasingkan rawatan dan perubatan dalam system kesihatan negara bakal membebankan golongan rakyat marhaen terutamanya pekerja kelas pertengahan dan bawahan. Menteri Kesihatan - Datuk Seri S.Subramaniam baru-baru ini dilaporkan merujuk cadangan tersebut dalam usaha membuat pindaan terhadap akta http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/new-pharmacy-bill-still-under-review-subramaniam-54580.

Mengapakah sejak akhir-akhir ini terlalu ramai Menteri-Menteri kerajaan kelihatan amat bangang apabila mengeluarkan kata-kata melibatkan kepentingan rakyat? Lebih baik Menteri-Menteri ini jangan membuka mulut dan usahakan mencari jalan memperbaiki tahap kehidupan rakyat dengan meningkatkan tahap ekonomi sosio kumpulan yang amat terjejas dengan peningkatan kos kehidupan.

Kesatuan desak pemimpin Khazanah letak jawatan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vLke0ZYUA&feature=youtu.be

Sekumpulan kesatuan sekerja hari ini mendesak pemimpin atasan Khazanah Nasional Bhd meletak jawatan kerana didakwa gagal menyelesaikan masalah pemberhentian 6,000 kakitangan Syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS).

Khazanah adalah syarikat milik kerajaan yang menjadi pemegang saham terbesar dalam MAS.

"Pemimpin atasan Khazanah harus letak jawatan kerana gagal menyelesaikan masalah (pemberhentian) 6,000 pekerja MAS,” kata Pengerusi Persekutuan Pekerja Pengangkutan Antarabangsa (ITF) Malaysia, Tan Sri Zainal Rampak.

Bercakap dalam sidang media di Petaling Jaya hari ini, beliau berkata mereka akan menghantar memorandum kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak memohon campur tangannya untuk menyelesaikan masalah itu, petang ini.

Memorandum itu antara lain mendesak agar pemberhentian 6,000 pekerja dihentikan serta merta dan rundingan hala tuju MAS serta masa depan pekerja dibuat segera.

Jelasnya lagi, penstrukturan semula MAS harus dibuat dengan telus dan mematuhi Perlembagaan Negara serta undang-undang.

“Kami mahu menerangkan kepada PM, Khazanah tidak dapat menyelesaikan masalah MAS, kami mahu kerajaan dan PM campur tangan,” katanya.

Setiakawan pelbagai kesatuan sekerja

Pelbagai kesatuan sekerja lain hari ini turut hadir dalam sidang media itu hari ini bagi menyatakan setiakawan mereka dengan kakitangan MAS yang mungkin hilang mata pencarian mereka.

Kesatuan-kesatuan itu turut menandatangani memorandum kepada Najib. Mereka termasuk Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja Malaysia (MTUC), Rangkaian Kesatuan Sekerja Antarabangsa Malaysia (UNI-MLC) dan Kongres Kesatuan Sekerja dalam syarikat GLC dan Penswastaan (GLC).

Turut menyatakan sokongan termasuk Kesatuan Kebangsaan Anak-Anak Kapal Kabin Malaysia (Nufam), Kesatuan Pekerja Keretapi Tanah Melayu (RUM), ASEAN Services Employees Trade Union Council Malaysia (ASETUC) dan Public Services Internationa Malaysia (PSI).

Sementara itu, Senator Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud yang turut serta dalam sidang media itu berkata beliau sudah membangkitkan perkara itu dalam Dewan Negara tetapi jawapan menteri didakwa tidak meyakinkan.

“Sebelum ini saya sudah bangkitkan dalam dewan negara, tapi jawapan yang diberikan oleh menteri itu tidak meyakinkan,”kata Syed yang juga Setiausaha Eksekutif Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-pekerja Perusahaan Alat-alat Pengangkutan dan Sekutu.

Tahun lalu, Khazanah mengumumkan pakej RM6 bilion untuk mengurangkan 30 peratus atau 6,000 pekerja sedia ada MAS bagi membolehkan syarikat tersebut kembali menjana keuntungan dalam tempoh tiga tahun, atau menjelang 2017.

Rancangan itu turut melibatkan penubuhan satu syarikat baru untuk mengambil alih aset dan perniagaan syarikat lama.


- Malaysiakini (BM), 23/3/2015, Kesatuan desak pemimpin Khazanah letak jawatan

Unions call on PM to intervene in MAS' restructuring plan that will result in loss of 6,000 jobs

Posted on 23 March 2015 - 06:22pm
Last updated on 23 March 2015 - 06:52pm
Lee Choon Fai
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

PETALING JAYA: Employee unions have banded together to call on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak to intervene in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) restructuring which will see 6,000 workers being retrenched.

International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam), and Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) are among those who jointly sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister's Office on the issue.

Other unions showing solidarity with MAS workers include Tenaga Nasional Berhad Junior Officers Union (TNBJOU), United Malaysia Labour Centre (UMLC), and Public Services International.

Nufam president Ismail Nasaruddin demanded that Khazanah Nasional Berhad, which owns 70% of shares in MAS and is overseeing restructuring operations, consult MAS in-house unions and threatened to picket if this is not done before downsizing starts in June.

"We will object to any termination letters and will picket if they do not consult us about the restructuring exercise.

"We hope the Prime Minister will pay attention to the issues MAS workers are facing; we do not want to picket and oppose the government, we only want open and harmonious discussions," Ismail told a press conference at the Crystal Crown Hotel today.

He said MAS' financial predicament is due to mismanagement and leakages from the top, and it is the management that needs to be restructured.

As proof, Ismail said he has data and financial records which he will reveal "when the time is right", and that reports have already been lodged with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in January and February.

Nufam secretary-general Mohd Akram Osman added that the average years of experience for MAS employees is 17 and those retrenched are unlikely to be able to work in other industries due to their training and age.

ITF Malaysia Chapter secretary-general Tan Sri Zainal Rampak said the restructuring has been taking too long and MAS' 20,000 employees have been left to wonder if they will be axed.

"Why is Khazanah not taking any proactive measures to solve the problems faced by these 6,000 employees?" Zainal asked.

MTUC secretary-general N. Gopal Krishnan said Khazanah is under the Finance Ministry of which Najib is the minister, thus he has to ensure that the job is done properly.

Gopal asserted that cutting MAS' workforce by 30% does not amount to restructuring the airline, noting that the carrier had been downsized to 18,000 employees in 2006, only to have 2,000 of them re-employed.

He added that changing one or two persons in the top management does not equal to a revamp, and more needs to be done to save MAS.

MAS lost RM1.17 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, and the MH370 and MH17 twin tragedies exacerbated its financial performance throughout 2014 as customers lost confidence in the airline and the safety of air travel.

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