PSM Bayan Baru
Cawangan Parti Sosialis Malaysia di Pulau Pinang
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Majlils Makan Malam Salam Perjuangan (PSM Fundraising Dinner)
Berilah sokongan anda kepada PSM, parti yang paling progresif di Malaysia!
Tiket: RM60
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Piket Serentak Di 7 Tempat: Membantah Pindaan Terburuk Akta Pekerjaan
BAYAN LEPAS: Dipijak! Itulah mesej yang indin diberi kepada Kementerian Sumber Manusia (KSM) kelmarin dengan mengadakan piket serentak di 7 tempat - Semenyih, Bangi, Balakong, Shah Alam, Ipoh, Sungai Siput & Bayan Lepas.
PSM Cawangan Bayan Baru mengadakan piket di Bayan Lepas di Jalan Sultan Azlah Shah di depan kilang Bosch.
Sejam sebelum piket itu bermula, kami mendapat berita bahawa rang undang pindaan akta pekerjaan ditarik balik di Parlimen. Piket masih berterusan dan disertai dengan sidang akhbar.
KSM tidak mengakui bahawa ia adalah kesan daripada bantahan rakyat termasuk piket PSM, dan hanya berkata rang undang-undang ditarik balik untuk menambah lagi beberapa perkara. Walaupun rang undang-undang ditolak pada kali ini, tetapi kempen kami untuk melindungi hak rakyat berterusan. Cara BN memerintah sepanjang 53 tahun di Malaysia ialah merampas hak rakyat dan kemudian memberi sedikit kalau ditekan. Dan kemudian merampas lagi. Inilah permainan BN.
Bertindak atau dipijak.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Tayangan filem "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Malam Mansuhkan ISA, 1st August 2010
Tempat: Speakers Square (Dataran Pidato), Esplanade
Press Conference to launch the Abolish ISA Night, 29th July
Date: 29th July 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 11a.m.
Venue: Bilik Zamrud, level 53, Komtar, Penang.
For any further information, please contact Jing Cheng on 012-7583779 or suarampg@gmail.com.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Council Workers In Poverty
Recently the Penang State government awarded the cleaners or Pekerja Rendah Awam (PRA) at the Penang local Council with recognition medals and cash rewards from RM 200 to RM 500 per worker. The move has to be applauded as many would take the services of these lowest rung of workers for granted. But medals and cash rewards will make them happy today but not in the long run. They will continue to receive the same miserably low monthly wages.
PSM is shocked to find even city status councils pay very low wages to the Pekerja Rendah Awam. These workers come under the R1 salary scheme set out by Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam. Local councils are self financing organisations, where all the salary of all the staff are paid from collection of assessment, compound and tax collections. At Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam, our survey shows that PRA basic pay is only RM 892 per month. But the take home pay is much less than that. A sample is shown here:
Pendapatan | RM | Potongan | RM |
Gaji Pokok | 892.55 | KWSP Pekerja | 95.00 |
Imbuhan Tetap Khidmat Awam | 95.00 | Perkeso | 6.75 |
Imbuhan Tetap Perumahan | 180.00 | Kospeta( loan frm Cooperative) | 423.70 |
COLA | 150.00 | Kelab MBSA | 2.00 |
Anulae (union subs) | 4.00 | ||
Sewa Kuarters | 180.00 | ||
Jumlah gaji | 1,317.55 | Jumlah potongan | 711.45 |
Gaji Bersih | 606.10 |
The Pekerja Rendah Awam workers in Majlis Perbandaran Selayang are also paid around RM 650++ take home pay. They are currently about 130 Pekerja Rendah Awam in MBSA and about 146 of them in Majlis Perbandaran Selayang .
It is thoroughly a shame for the Federal Government and JPA to maintain these poverty wages among the council workers who always carry out all the dirty, dangerous and undesirable jobs to make a better living for city folks. The workers who dig graves at odd hours also fall into these category. The Human Resources Ministry till today has refused to implement minimum wages claiming protest from private enterprises. How then about government workers? Why to they have to suffer in poverty?
These council workers are all staying in cities, towns and have to bear the ever increasing living cost in the cities. PSM urges the Pakatan Rakyat State Government of Selangor to immediately address the wages of the local council workers. Even though the salary scale might be controlled by the JPA, Federal Government, the State government should be able to provide an additional allowance to uplift their salary scale. The State government of Selangor supports a minimum wage for all as stated in the election manifesto. But how can it convince the private sector to do it, if its own council workers are living in poverty?
PSM urges Selangor State to immediately take steps to increase the wages of all Pekerja Rendah Awam (PRA) in all councils in Selangor.
A. Sivarajan
Ahli Majlis MBSA (PSM)
Ahli J/k Perjawatan & Undang-Undang MBSA
Ahli J/k Tabung Majikan Prihatin Pekerja MBSA