Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:57 AM MYT
BY R. LOHESWAR
Halim said Saravanan s criminal defamation report against J. Solomon demonstrated a lack of tolerance and will only serve to anger the labour force whom Solomon represents. Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president Datuk Halim Mansor has accused Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan of trying to intimidate its secretary-general with a police report.
He said the move showed the ministry, minister and the government in bad light, because instead of taking criticism and learning from it, they wanted to muzzle them.
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 10:43 AM MYT
BY JOHN BUNYAN
A man checks his body temperature at the Kampung Baru Ramadan bazaar April 14, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 The National Union of Bank Employees secretary-general J. Solomon said that allowing all economic sectors to operate would defeat to purpose of implementing a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 cases.
He suggested that it would be more effective if only essential sectors were allowed to operate, similar to the introduction of the first lockdown last year,
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Leif Mills, alumnus of Balliol and the Royal Military Police who became a union leader – obituary
At TUC meetings he had a habit of using Latin and Greek phrases, and he advised Margaret Thatcher on how to manage the hard Left
Leif Mills, keen pipe smoker
Credit: family
Leif Mills, who has died aged 84, was General Secretary of the white collar Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU, formerly the National Union of Bank Employees, NUBE) from 1972 to 1996.
Mills had an unusual CV for a trade union leader. He was a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, and when he became president of the TUC General Council in 1994-95 he declared himself proud to have made it to the top of “the last unclimbed peak of British life for the college”.