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Malaysiakini
Police have summoned all members of the National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) to the Segamat district police headquarters for picketing against caretaker Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam.
The police want to record statements from all of the more than 150 Nube members who took part in the picket in Segamat yesterday and today, the union’s secretary-general J Solomon said.
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All the Nube members in the picket are now at the Segamat district police headquarters, queuing up in two lines for their statements to be taken.
Police haul up Nube members for anti-Subra picket
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Malaysiakini
12.25pm – Segamat: The National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) continues its second day of picketing in Segamat – beginning at 11am this morning – but was then asked by the police to disperse some 90 minutes later.
The 200 red-clad picketers, like yesterday, were met with a counter-protest by BN even though their numbers are significantly less today, at around 10.
About 10 Light Strike Force officers are also deployed at the scene as a precaution.
Nube plans to hold another two-hour picket later today, but is unsure whether the police would allow the go-ahead after today’s early dispersal.
Nube pickets for second day in Segamat
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Nube president Tan Eng Hong denied Subramaniam’s accusation that the union was playing politics by picketing so close to the general election.
“It so happens that the general election is only four days away from May 1 and so we are celebrating Workers Day.
“We are apolitical, if we are political we would have held a nationwide picket against BN but no, we are only targeting Subramaniam in Segamat because he has victimised the workers,” he said.
Malaysiakini
JOHOR The National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) did not mince its words today in vowing to see caretaker Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam’s defeat in Segamat as more than 200 of its members descended on the town.
Not to be outdone, Subramaniam’s supporters, clad in blue BN T-shirts, mobilised in equal numbers across the street but were simply overwhelmed as Nube members came prepared with drums, kompang and South African horns, the vuvuzela.
The red-clad Nube members created a carnival-like atmosphere along the row of banks on Jalan Kampung Genuang as they danced and sang “Tolak Subra” (Reject Subra) to the tune of various songs and waved large Nube flags.
Subra’s supporters watched on as they tried to outdo the Nube group with a handful of honks and placards reading “We love Subra, We love BN”.
However, the deafening drums and vuvuzelas drowned out the BN group as passing cars honked to the tune of the Nube songs.The picketers also danced to the tune of popular South Korean hit ‘Gangnam Style’ and chanted “Arise workers, long live the workers!”
Bank unionists storm Segamat in bid to oust Subra
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Malaysian Insider
NUBE’s plan to picket in Segamat is politically motivated: Dr Subramaniam
SEGAMAT, May 1 – The plan by the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE) to picket on the last three days of the campaigning for the 13th general election (GE13) here is politically motivated, said Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam.
He said there was no issue that could be used as the basis for the union to come to Segamat and try to create chaos in the streets because the issue on the formation of the Maybank internal union had already been referred to the court.
“If they continue to hold the picket here, it is as though they don’t respect the decision of the court. In fact, I have asked the NUBE to wait for the decision of the court but they refused to do so,” he said at a media conference on the Workers’ Day celebration, here today.
Subramaniam said the NUBE had previously requested for his ministry to drop the application for the formation of an in-house union for Maybank but the decision to drop the application did not benefit any party and it became a court case.
Describing the NUBE plan as an attempt to create provocation, Subramaniam, who is also the incumbent Member of Parliament for Segamat, said their presence here certainly had political motive as they had chosen the 13th general election period to make their protest. – Bernama
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Malaysiakini
JOHOR The National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) is planning on a sustained picket in Segamat against the BN incumbent, Dr S Subramaniam, who is defending his seat.
Subramaniam (right in photo), the caretaker human resources minister, is already having to deal with the rising momentum of campaigning by PKR rival Chua Jui Meng (left in photo).
Nube has vowed to hold three consecutive days of picketing from today – Labour Day – to ensure Subramaniam is defeated in Segamat.
“He has been the worst human resources minister ever. We will make sure he is no longer minister (after the 13th general election on Sunday),” Nube president Tan Eng Hong said when contacted.
Nube is upset that Subramaniam had supported the formation of an internal union in Maybank which has diluted its own influence over employee-related matters.
Nube threatens to defeat Subra in Segamat
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