Nationwide picket on the 25th of June 2007! Fight for minimum wage and COLA allowance for employees in the private sector!

Malaysian Trade Union Congress would lead a nationwide picket demanding the ruling government of Malaysia to consider setting up a minimum wage policy of Malaysian Ringgit $900.00 and a standard COLA (Cost of Living Allowance) of a minimum of Malaysian Ringgit $300.00 for employees in the private sector. The picket is scheduled to take place in every major cities such as Kuala Lumpur (Jalan Raja Laut), Bangsar, Petaling Jaya, Bangi, Shah Alam, Klang, Johore, Kuching and Penang. Thousands of employees in the private sector are expected to throng these locations after signing off from work at 1700 hours this coming Monday 25th of June.

Malaysian Malay women with high paying salaries and sitting inside nice comfortable office chairs may not be interested in joining the scheduled picket but I sincerely hope that they would somehow realize that a lot of Malaysians are suffering at the moment due to the ever rising costs of living. The ruling government has never been kind towards those working in the private sector but they do overly pamper government servants in the public sector! How unfair!

The ruling government and their silent policies of supporting and guaranteeing price hikes every single year only benefits business entities. Price hikes would inadvertently lead to rising costs of living and it has always been the working class citizens that would have to bear the brunt! So Malaysian Malay women, please show your support for MTUC by joining them this coming Monday June 25th!