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Andrew Lo claims that MTUC president and secretary-general are imposing personal views that run contrary to workers' interests.

Trade union leaders are concerned some of the proposed amendments will facilitate union-busting.

MTUC: Less than three percent of the 2.2mil documented migrant workers in the country belong to a union.

LETTER | M'sian workers have come to regard the gov't as mostly passive on bread and butter issues.

Congress hopes technical panel meeting on amendments to labour laws it attends in Putrajaya today will be held in genuine spirit.

ADUN SPEAKS | For unions to be effective in M'sia, fundamental concerns of labour associated with freedom of association must be addressed.

The issue has been vindicated from an economist point of view, says division secretary K Veeriah.

COMMENT | This is an example of how the gov't is able to arrive at a middle ground on issues relating to labour.

LETTER | The IRA amendments are more inclusive and friendlier.

LETTER | The trade union movement in Malaysia has always been seen as a threat to the government.

ADUN SPEAKS | Reform NLAC to ensure MTUC has bigger and more effective role of endorsement rather than consultation.

Both MTUC and MEF are urging lawmakers in the upper house to block the passage of the bill.

It wants to know if the cops involved could have neutralised the victim as opposed to shooting him dead.

COMMENT | Such a campaign based on narrow racial interests will affect workers' livelihood.

YOURSAY | ‘New Malaysia is in denial mode.’

LETTER | The govt's position on not reviewing the retirement age is based on flawed reasoning and assumptions.

Its secretary-general J Solomon calls for PM and Syed Saddiq to come up with a study on the retirement age proposal.

'We are not asking for higher take-home wages; we are only asking for a real wage.'

Sec-gen J Solomon says the national poverty line is not just ridiculous, but also 'totally unlivable.'

It says raw employment figures do not take into account underemployment and wage depression.

A worker of Klang-based firm told the union that the memo had been posted on a public notice board.

Weak response to ILO sexual harassment convention must be reversed, says activist S Thilaga.

LETTER | The foreign worker exploitation in Malaysia has gone from bad to worse - the gov't must resolve this now.