Tag Archives: Malaysia

Philippines: FFW raises heat stress awareness in Philippines radio broadcast for Workers’ Memorial Day

In the Philippines, BWI affiliate unions are marking Workers’ Memorial Day through both media outreach and worker education. FFW raised awareness of heat stress through a national radio discussion on GMA Super Radio. Meanwhile, NUBCW delivered training sessions for construction workers, covering trade union fundamentals, gender awareness, workplace conditions and occupational safety and health. These initiatives aim to strengthen worker understanding, organisation and protection in the face of ongoing workplace risks.

Malaysia: Unions mark Workers’ Memorial Day with migrant worker outreach and organising efforts

In Malaysia, BWI affiliate unions STIEU and TEUPM are marking Workers’ Memorial Day through workplace discussions, campaigns and organising activities. STIEU is engaging migrant workers across several companies, highlighting workplace conditions and the challenges they face, while building awareness and solidarity. TEUPM is combining its annual general meeting with discussions on occupational safety and health and IWMD, reinforcing union structures and strengthening worker representation.

Malaysia: Join the global campaign to stop heat stress and deadly dust – STIEU, TEUPM and UFES

For #IWMD2025, BWI’s Malaysian affiliates STIEU (Sabah), TEUPM (Kuala Lumpur), and UFES (Sarawak) join the global campaign to #StopDeadlyDust and “heat stress” at work.
Despite facing poor working conditions, low wages, and job insecurity, brave trade union affiliates—especially in the wood industry—stand united for better OSH and stronger protections.

 

Asia Pacific: Across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Cambodia, BWI Affiliates unite in commemorating International Workers’ Memorial Day.

Malaysia: Meetings, commemorations and campaigns to mark 28 April – TEUPM

Timber Employees Union Peninsular Malaysia (TEUPM) will be holding a meeting have meeting with factory community with general managers, plant managers, HR and assistant managers regarding worker safety and how to avoid it problems in the workplace. Additionally TEUPM will be holding an awareness raising campaign with MTUC and affiliates with a 28 April commemoration , discussion and meeting.

Malaysia: Safety campaign to mark 28 April – UFES

The Union of Forestry Employees Sarawak (UFES) initiated an OHS awareness campaign to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day during the preparation of the planting programme in Belawai, Sarawak Malaysia.

 

Malaysia: Building and wood workers’ union federation BWI announces 28 April plans

Global building unions’ federation BWI has announced the 28 April plans of its Malaysia affiliates.

Malaysian BWI affiliates and partner coalitions (Labour Law Reform Coalition) will present a Research Report on “Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration Failures” with a soft launch event on 28 April. The aim of the report is:

1. To highlight the severity of occupational hazards, injuries and deaths in varying sectors and their links to forced labour in Malaysia.
2. To highlight why relevant regulations must be treated as a priority by the Malaysian administration in the ‘new normal’.
3. To investigate existing policy measures/programmes in Malaysia and identify how they can be improved, as well as provide recommendations on bettering the status of workers in
Malaysia based on collected data.

Malaysia: Unions demand legal sanctions against construction companies that violate safety standards – BWI

On the occasion of International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April, 40 Malaysian trade unions and civil society groups, with the support of BWI, issued a statement demanding legal sanctions against construction companies that violate occupational health and safety standards. #BWI2020IWMD

Asia: ANROEV activities and initiatives for 28 April

ANROEV has supplied a list of some of their affiliates’ initiatives in various countries campaigning for the recognition of COVID 19 as an occupational and compensable disease.

ANROEV affiliates activities [pdf]

28 April: Malaysia designates COVID-19 as occupational disease

Malaysia’s Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) has moved to clarify that COVID-19 is recognised as an occupational disease under the country’s Employment Social Security Act 1969. Read more