Category: Labour

IMF’s official complaint against the Malaysian Government

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at the inaugural meeting of the DAP National Labour Bureau held at DAP Headquaters at PJ on Monday, 22nd August 1977 at 8p.m.

IMF’s official complaint against the Malaysian Government to ILO: DAP calls on Labour Minister Lee San Choo to stop splitting the workers movement into peanut unions and to respect the right and freedom of workers to organize and join unions

There are many reasons to explain why the Malaysian labour movement is not the national force it should be to spearhead economic, political and social changes to rectify the inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes in the country. Continue reading IMF’s official complaint against the Malaysian Government

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Speech by the DAP MP for Kuala Lumpur Bandar, Mr. Lee Lam Thye when debating the estimates for the MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND POWER in Parliament on 8th December, 1976.

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

(a) DAP calls for further amendments to the Industrial Relations Act to protect the interest of Malaysian workers.

On the subject of Labour and Industrial Relations, I wish to refer to the Industrial Relation Act 1967. Continue reading LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, to the National Union of Employees of Unions of Petaling Jaya, Balai Raya, on Sunday, 17th October, 1976,at 10.00 a.m.

Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

Recently, trade unions have been very much in the news firstly over the CUEPACS claim for government implementation of the Ibrahim Ali Commission revised Report, an secondly the Trade Union demand for changes in the labour laws. Continue reading Trade Unions and Politics: An Inseparable Relationship.

DAP calls on Tun Razak to intervene and settle the interpreter’s claims to allow them to get a just deal

DAP calls on Tun Razak to intervene and settle the interpreter’s claims to allow them to get a just deal

The DAP calls on the Prime minister, Tun Razak, to intervene in the court interpreters’ strike and accede to the interpreters’ claim for pay scale revisions, which had not been adjusted for 23 years, to prove that all workers can get a just and fair deal in Malaysia.

The DAP supports all efforts by workers to fight for a better deal. It is useless to have increasing GNP or to have one of the highest living standards in Asia, if our workers are lowly paid. This great contrast can only mean that the fruits of economic development have not been distributed equally and fairly among all sections of Malaysians, but are being monpolised by the Malaysian rich.

Minimum Wage Law for Workers

Since the resumption of Parliaments in February 1971 till now, one of the constant subjects my colleagues and I in the DAP have kept pressing for inside this Chamber is for the enactment of legislation to fix basic minimum wages for workers, to ensure that they and their dependents enjoy the basic human needs of food, clothing, housing and schooling.

Unfortunately, this proposal, to my knowledge, had never received the serious consideration of the government, probably for the simple reason that there is not a single Cabinet Minister who had a labour past, and who understands and sympathises with the sufferings, aspirations and hopes of the working class. Continue reading Minimum Wage Law for Workers

Lim Kit Siang to ask government to change E.P.F. investment policies to directly benefit the workers when Parliament meets from July 17 – 26

DAP Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

Lim Kit Siang to ask government to change E.P.F. investment policies to directly benefit the workers when Parliament meets from July 17 – 26

When Parliament meets from July 17 – 26, I will ask the Finance Minister, Tun Razak whether the government would consider changing the investment policies with regard to the E.P.F. contributions to directly benefits the workers, for instance, in financing and building low-cost houses for workers, and the delay in raising the interest rates off E.P.F. contributions.

Among other questions which I will ask are: Continue reading Lim Kit Siang to ask government to change E.P.F. investment policies to directly benefit the workers when Parliament meets from July 17 – 26

May Day Message by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang

May Day Message by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang

The Democratic Action Party joins the workers in Malaysia to rededicate themselves to the cause of labour, of raising the status of the working class in Malaysia and enhancing the dignity of their role in building the nation, on the occasion of this year’s May Day.

The workers in Malaysia have been a very downtrodden class of people in a Malaysia where the capital ists and the moneyed interests are given preference and priority in all governmental departments. Continue reading May Day Message by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang

Call on all private sector employers who have not paid COLA to their workers to do so without any more delay

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP Public Rally in Batu Pahat on Saturday, 16th March 1974 at 8 p.m.

1. Call on all private sector employers who have not paid COLA to their workers to do so without any more delay

There are still large numbers of employers in the private sector who have not yet paid COLA to their employees to help the workers to regain their purchasing power and restore their standard of living in the period of galloping inflation. Continue reading Call on all private sector employers who have not paid COLA to their workers to do so without any more delay

Call on Datuk Hussein Onn, to take action against profiteering by importers

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the general meeting of the Malacca Division of the DAP Youth Movement on Saturday, 23rd February 1974 at 10 a.m.

1. Call on Datuk Hussein Onn, to take action against profiteering by importers who make 100 per cent profits.

Early this week, the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, announced that the government was to take “immediate and urgent measures” to check hoarding and profiteering

This is not the first time that he government has announced steps to fight profiteering and hoarding but up to date, all government measures to fight profiteering and check price increases have failed. Whether the present government measures against hoarding and profiteering will also fail, only time will tell. Continue reading Call on Datuk Hussein Onn, to take action against profiteering by importers

DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Tan Sri Manickavasagam

DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Tan Sri Manickavasagam, to personally intervene to settle the 17-day Thung Pao strike and the 26-day Ong Yoke Lin strike to protect the legitimate interests and rights of workers

I have today written to the Minister of Labour, Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam, asking him to personally intervene in the 17-day Thung Pao strike and the 26-day Sharikat Ong Yoke Lin strike to reach a settlement which will uphold legitimate rights and interests of the workers.

Yesterday, accompanied by the Chairman of DAP Labour Bureau, Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, who is also Selangor State Assemblyman, and DAP CEC Member, Sdr. Chain Heng Kai, I visited the Sharikat Ong Yoke Lin strikes. It is clear that this is another case of anti-union management which do not want to see workers organised into a union to more effective represent workers’ interests. Continue reading DAP calls on Minister of Labour, Tan Sri Manickavasagam