I refer to the malaysiakini report MTUC wants pay review for private sector too .

I agree with the MTUC that the workers have been neglected all these years. If we calculate, we see that workers in private sector for instance, in factories, work for 48 hours per week. They work 4.5 weeks per month meaning , 48hrs x4.5 weeks per month would be equal to 216 hours per month.

If MTUC asks for RM900 per month in wages, that is equivalent to RM4.16 per hour.

No doubt most private sector workers work about 60 hours per week, doing overtime to make ends meets. In fact, this is normal. We have these loyal workers working at low wages and getting the country out of financial trouble in 1997. Yet 10 years on, they've got nothing to show.

Sure Corporate Malaysia, Maxis, Genting, YTL, UEM and whatever else, including foreign companies or mostly foreign companies have very healthy balance sheets. We even have created billionaires - not one but a few in the past 10 years through monopolies and favourable contracts.

Yet every one, including the government, forgets who really toils to achieve that prosperity. I sincerely would like to see MTUC being successful in getting legislation for a minimum wage of RM900 per month.