PR to replace one million foreign
workers with M’sians
By Chua Jui Meng
Chua delivering ceramah before PR de
facto leader Anwar Ibrahim’s arrival in Sungai Tongkang Rengit, Batu Pahat, on
Mar 1, 2013.
WHEN
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) is given the people’s mandate to govern Malaysia after the
coming 13th General Election (GE13), one of its most crucial task is
to create one million job opportunities.
We
also want to implement the RM1,100 per month minimum wage.
As
outlined in our Manifesto Rakyat, we
aim to achieve the above through a People’s Pioneer Scheme to train one million
school leavers without higher education to uplift their skills in technical
fields, combining employment with periodic certification of skills.
The
action plan is to set up five technical universities and 25 new vocational
schools.
The
newly trained skilled labour will then replace part of the current three
million foreign workers in the country.
We
believe the country’s economic potential is being hampered by the interests of
the power elites and their cronies.
Malaysia
today is an economy that is making BN-Umno politicians and their hangers-on richer
and richer, but the ordinary people poorer and poorer.
Listed
in PR’s manifesto under The People’s Economy,
our target is to have every Malaysian family having a monthly take-home
household income of at least RM4,000 after PR’s first term as Malaysia’s
federal government.
We
also aim to break the monopolies created by the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN)
over the years. Monopolies are a hindrance to the nation’s healthy economic
growth.
The
strategy is to revitalise healthy economic competition by:
Ø Establishing an
Anti-Monopoly Commission and amending existing laws relating to competition to
clamp down on unfair business practices;
Ø Establishing a
Public Contracts Commission to evaluate and act as arbitrator to ensure that
all agreements between the government and private sectors are not biased or
unfavourable to the rakyat;
Ø Breaking up
monopolies in communications, essential foods, pharmaceuticals, civil aviation
and other key sectors; and
Ø Restructure
unfair independent power producer (IPP) agreements to stop the enrichment of
cronies via public funds.
Part of the 8,000-people crowd at the ceramah in Sungai Rengit Batu Pahat on
March 1, 2013.
While
Barisan Nasional (BN), through its leaders and media, continue to rubbish our
manifesto without any basis or intellectual argument, the rakyat should read
and understand our electoral plan for the future of the people and nation.
The concrete roof of this dewan in Batu Pahat’s Dataran Sungai
Tongkang Rengit is this group of PR supporters’ “premium seating” to watch
Anwar deliver his ceramah.
There
are 13 action plans listed under The
People’s Economy to ensure the realisation of its tragets.
The
details of the PR manifesto are now available online. You have a choice to view
the summary or full manifesto, in Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese, Tamil,
Iban or Kadazan.
Just
click the link below:
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