Malaysian government-linked company accused of union busting

UEM Group Berhad, a Malaysian government-linked company (GLC), through its subsidiary, Edgenta UEMS, is currently engaged in a vicious union-busting campaign, aggressively victimising frontline hospital cleaners and their worksite union officials.
Since early 2020, the hospital janitors have been confronted by problems of widespread union- busting activities in all of the company’s hospitals, such as deliberate changing of workers’ working hours and shift unilaterally without prior consent.
Workers active in the union have also been punished by arbitrarily being transferred out to hospitals far away from their residence. Additionally, the company is forbidding union activities by disallowing union worksite committees to have discussions with workers, even during their legitimate break time, and by threatening disciplinary action against union officials.