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Trade Union in Malaysia
Electrical Industry Workers Union (EIWU) 
Future challenges
EIWU is organising on migrant workers where big company consider on the labour contracting. Many workers whether local or migrant workers feel unsafe to provide testimony on union busting to Industrial Relation Departments because the company will hit back against them.
Establish in January 1970. Panasonic was the first company to start their operation in Malaysia. Malaysian government decided to only allow in house union to be formed in electronic companies.
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Accomplishment
Since 2018 EIWU successfully convinced two companies to replace migrant workers with local workers as soon as migrant workers’ contracts ended. This is EIWU’s contribution to generate employment opportunity for young local workers.
Challenges faced
The past 15 years is to defend electrical workers’ interests when companies shut down. Most of the time union members were not satisfied with the termination package or voluntary separation scheme (VSS), EIWU filed law suit at courts to demand for higher retrenchment benefits.
Definition: A trade union is a group of employees who join together to maintain and improve their conditions of employment
Objectives: to promote industrial, social and intellectual interests, to obtain and maintain for members just & proper rates of remuneration, to secure employment and its work condition and acceptable hours.
Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC)
Activities
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Help to organize workers and helping to increase efficiency, safety and productivity.
Assisting unions in their negotiation, mustering support and aid for union projects and programmes
Origin
MTUC was established when the first state of emergence occur in Malaysia against insurgent communist activities.
At this critical time, workers had no organization to look after their interest, protect them and also to represent their views generally
Objectives
- Promoting the interest of it’s affiliated organizations and to improve the economic and social conditions of workers.
- Ensuring that policies are developed and action taken to ensure full employment, to work towards the establishment of a minimum wage and establish training centres and extension of training facilities for workers.
- Provide protection against sickness, unemployment, old age, injury, invalidity and retiring benefits and promotion of high standards of health, hygiene and welfare in all places of employment and seek adequate compensation for workers disabled by accidents and diseases.
Federation of trade union and has been registered under the Societies Act, 1955.
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Current programs
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Retraining for retrenched workers, re-employment of retrenched workers
Bank Employee Union Malaysia - NUBE
Malaysia’s third largest union, is to improve the working lives of its 20,000 or so members in the banking and financial institutions of Peninsular Malaysia.
Mission
NUBE shall be devoted to developing human potential to build dedicated leadership with the ability to create innovative solutions, motivate and encourage NUBE members and the public to make quality choices to improve their lives.
This will bring forth the best in each of us to enhance livelihoods for all of us, the society, and the nation.
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Responsibilities
Organize and recruit employees in the banking and financial institution in Peninsular Malaysia as members of NUBE.
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