Coward BN calls in cops to disperse NUBE
picket
SEGAMAT (May 2, 2013): Barisan
Nasional (BN) today called in the cops to disperse the National Union of Bank
Employees (NUBE) picket here.
The
Umno-led BN hooligans had yesterday deployed bus loads of “supporters” to try
and disrupt NUBE’s Labour Day picketing yesterday.
Failing
to create any impact for BN, today the police were called in to stop the picket
at 1pm outside CIMB bank.
The
police, including baton-armed Federal Reserve Unit men, told NUBE officials
that they had been instructed by the higher ups to declare the picket illegal.
The
200-strong NUBE members then thanked the police and dispersed a noisy group of
BN supporters standing about 30m away to observe.heduled for a third round of
picketing outside Maybank this evening.
However,
with the police latest stand, NUBE will consult their lawyers to determine the
status of their right to peaceful assembly and whether to proceed with the
picketing as planned.
Earlier,
the picketers sang songs and chanted slogans calling on the people of Segamat
to remove the useless caretaker Human Resources Minister S.Subramaniam.
“As
a minister, he should be taking care of the welfare of workers. Instead, for
the past five years, he has been undermining the workers, weakening and eroding
our rights,” the NUBE official said in his address to the picketers.
“Remove
Subramaniam so that a more capable man can look after workers. Long live
workers,” he added.
Earlier,
Johor PKR chairman Chua Jui Meng went on a house-to-house campaign trail to
greet voters and deliver flyers in the Segamat commercial centre at 11am after
a two-hour meeting in his Bandar Utama main Operations Centre.
He
then made a short stop to check out the NUBE picket and continued with his
campaign trail till 3pm.
Chua
will this evening speak at a DAP ceramah in Kampung Abullah which will feature
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang.
Here
are the pictures for the day:
