LETTER | When the Jaringan Pekerja Kontrak Kerajaan (JPKK), Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), concerned individual trade unions, and components of civil society are agitating for the enforcement of the national minimum wage for the most vulnerable segment of workers, the national leadership of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) seems to have abdicated its fiduciary responsibility in the matter.
As the apex worker’s organisation, it would be expected of the national MTUC leadership to be at the forefront in the pursuit of compliance with the law, be it the minimum wage or the reduction of working hours to 45 hours per week.
Outrageously, the current national MTUC leadership, unlike in the past, has not lifted a finger in challenging the abuses so perpetuated by the employers in fundamental issues such as the implementation of the minimum wage and the absolute reduction of working hours to 45 hours per working week.
While JPKK, PSM, and concerned civil society organisations protested before the Prime Minister’s Office to highlight the non-compliance of the law, the MTUC National leadership has remained domesticated in the matter.
The current national MTUC leadership seems to have wrapped itself in a cocoon - living in a “di bawah tempurung” world - oblivious to the plight of the workers! They have neither the conviction to assemble the numbers to mount a protest against the recalcitrant employers nor the establishment for the matter. Taking to the streets, apparently,...
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