Promises of RM1,000 wage, free healthcare

SEREMBAN: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) wants to re-examine the taxation system if it is given the mandate to rule the country.
Party president Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail pledged to provide free healthcare to all workers, free education for children of lower income workers and affordable housing for all.
She said the party would also introduce a RM1,000 minimum wage for all workers.
“We will encourage workers to unionise, as it is only through unionisation that we enable workers to claim their rights, including the right to be trained in relevant skills by their employers,” she said in her policy speech yesterday at the party’s national annual congress.
Expressing concern about the lot of foreign workers, she said they were continually mistreated and abused by government policies, by the conditions in which they were arrested and the treatment while in detention.
On human trafficking, Dr Wan Azizah said the situation was getting worse and “bringing shame upon our country in the eyes of the world.”
She said this involved not only the exploitation of women and children forced into the sex industry but also foreign workers who were forced to work beyond their contract demands.
On the economy, Dr Wan Azizah expressed concern that many Malaysian entrepreneurs, especially non-Malays, were taking their business out of the country.
She also spoke about the power of modern technology like blogging and the alternative media to overthrow oppressive regimes.
Dr Wan Azizah believed the Government was afraid of this, hence blogs and bloggers were now seen as a threat to the ruling coalition.

tunku : it's always easy to promise moon and sky when you are not in the position to fulfill it.let me remind azizah that blogs and bloggers were now a threat to those who do the wrong thing, may it be the government or opposition.