Kesatuan mahu KTMB kekal entiti kerajaan
23 Mac 2012
KUALA LUMPUR - Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerja Keretapi Tanah Melayu (RUM) meminta kerajaan mengembalikan semula Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) sebagai sebuah badan sektor awam memandangkan usaha penswastaannya sebelum ini menemui kegagalan dan mendatangkan masalah kepada pekerja.
Presidennya Abdul Razak Md Hassan berkata ini kerana syarikat swasta telah terbukti tidak mampu menerajui KTM dengan baik seperti yang pernah berlaku sekitar tahun 1997 hingga 2002 apabila Konsortium Marak Unggul Sdn Bhd dilantik mengambil alih pengurusan KTMB untuk memulihkan KTMB serta memberi tambahan pendapatan sehingga memberi keuntungan.
"Tetapi sebaliknya timbul porak poranda dalam pengurusan malah ramai pekerja KTMB bukan eksekutif diletakkan sebagai "surplus" (berlebihan) sehingga menimbulkan pertikaian antara kesatuan dan pengursan Marak Unggul sehingga kontrak syarikat itu ditamatkan," katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.
Beliau berkata kini pihak kesatuan difahamkan perunding MMC Corporation Berhad telah memasuki KTMB untuk membuat penilaian yang merupakan kajian sebelum menawarkan pengambilalihan KTMB.
Abdul Razak berkata kesatuan tidak nampak sebarang kebaikan yang boleh diberikan kepada KTMB oleh MMC menerusi pengambilalihan itu dan desas desus yang mengatakan bahawa MMC akan menyuntik sumber kewangan sebanyak RM1 bilion tidak bolah dianggap satu suntikan yang besar.
Katanya ini kerana jumlah itu masih tidak mampu untuk membeli entiti KTMB kalau dikirakan kos sebenar seperti RM1.8 bilion untuk membeli 38 set komuter enam gerabak.
Abdul Razak berkata KTMB adalah sebuah syarikat pengangkutan awam yang memberi perkhidmatan sosial kepada rakyat dengan perkhidmatan yang murah, selesa dan selamat.
"Langkah membenarkan syarikat lain mengambil alih KTMB adalah satu perkara yang sangat merugikan rakyat kerana tidak mustahil, sebagai entiti swasta, kos tambang pengangkutan akan ditingkatkan," katanya.
Abdul Razak berharap kerajaan akan menolak cadangan MMC atau mana-mana syarikat yang mahu mengambil alih KTMB dan sebaliknya memberi tumpuan terhadap perkhidmatan yang lebih baik kepada rakyat berpendapatan rendah.
Katanya RUM membantah kajian yang dijalankan oleh MMC itu dan meminta Kementerian Kewangan mengarahkan supaya ianya dihentikan serta merta kerana kesatuan tidak bersetuju dengan sebarang usaha menyerahkan KTMB kepada sektor swasta demi kebaikan pekerja serta rakyat keseluruhannya.- Bernama
http://www.sinarharian.com.my/nasional/kesatuan-mahu-ktmb-kekal-entiti-kerajaan-1.34731
MMC’s privatisation of KTMB starts?
MMC Corp has started its private takeover of KTMB, ringing alarm bells for the train company's union, who fear eventual lay-offs and higher fares to follow suit.
PETALING JAYA: Railway workers are worried that a private takeover of Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) will lead to more expensive fares and the potential lay-off of many of its 5,500 employees.Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya (RUM) president Abdul Razak Md Hassan claimed that nothing good could come out of MMC Corp Bhd’s plan to privatise the country’s largest rail company.
“No good can come from MMC’s takeover of KTMB. The propaganda that says that MMC can inject RM1 billion worth of funds cannot be taken in as a large contribution, because it is not enough to buy KTMB as an entity.”
“…The union also does not see any benefits for its non-executive and executive KTMB staff. In fact, we feel that many benefits will be slashed along with the high possibility that workers may be laid off,” he said in a press statement.
Late last year, MMC Corp confirmed that it wanted to take over the train company and in doing so, inject RM1 billion into KTMB.
Before doing so, it planned on going through a “due diligence” exercise and conduct a feasibility study in the process.
Up until then, the train company had been suffering massive losses. FMT previously reported that KTMB had been seeing constant losses since the early 1990s; with more than RM1.45 billion in total up to 2008.
In July last year, RUM also accused the company’s management of allegedly losing RM300 million of KTMB’s cash reserves and overdrafts. (KTMB is wholly-owned by the Finance Ministry.)
Alarm bells however rang for RUM when it claimed that MMC had brought 20 of its consultants into KTMB to start the “due diligence” exercise.
“No good can come from MMC’s takeover of KTMB. The propaganda that says that MMC can inject RM1 billion worth of funds cannot be taken in as a large contribution, because it is not enough to buy KTMB as an entity.”
“…The union also does not see any benefits for its non-executive and executive KTMB staff. In fact, we feel that many benefits will be slashed along with the high possibility that workers may be laid off,” he said in a press statement.
Late last year, MMC Corp confirmed that it wanted to take over the train company and in doing so, inject RM1 billion into KTMB.
Before doing so, it planned on going through a “due diligence” exercise and conduct a feasibility study in the process.
Up until then, the train company had been suffering massive losses. FMT previously reported that KTMB had been seeing constant losses since the early 1990s; with more than RM1.45 billion in total up to 2008.
In July last year, RUM also accused the company’s management of allegedly losing RM300 million of KTMB’s cash reserves and overdrafts. (KTMB is wholly-owned by the Finance Ministry.)
Alarm bells however rang for RUM when it claimed that MMC had brought 20 of its consultants into KTMB to start the “due diligence” exercise.
KTMB president coy on details Abdul Razak said that KTMB had been privatised (at least partially) before, to disastrous results.
From 1997 to 2002, he said that Konsortium Marak Unggul (KMU) Sdn Bhd was on a contract to handle the company’s management.
“In the beginning, it seemed as though KMU could improve KTMB and increase its revenue as well as its profits,” he said.
He added that KMU failed to do this and had even turned many of KTMB non-executive staff into “surplus”.
Abdul Razak also warned that a private takeover of KTMB would result in higher fares; a burden for low-income-earners who relied on the Intercity service for travel.
He then demanded that KTMB remain in government hands, adding that the union would hold an emergency meeting to discuss the matter.
Speaking to FMT, KTMB president Aminuddin Adnan confirmed that MMC’s consultants had visited the company this week.
He was however coy on the details.
“It’s not proper for us to comment. We are not sure what it’s going to be like…(as) the due diligence has just started,” he said.
Aminuddin also declined to say if Abdul Razak was overreacting.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/03/24/mmcs-privatisation-of-ktmb-starts/
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