May Day Rallies ???

[Maxus-MIFA9]

What is actually May Day (Labour's Day) Rallies ????

 

 

Singapore:

 

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke on some of the concerns of workers and how the government intends to work with them to tackle these issues.

 

Addressing more than 1,500 unionists, workers and employers at the May Day Rally, Mr Lee said he had lunch with union leaders last week to find out what concerned them.

 

One of the issues is the cost of living particularly healthcare costs.

 

 

"Thousands visited the Istana during its Open House on Labour Day on Tuesday.

 

The bands from River Valley High and Fu Chun Primary School entertained the visitors while musicians from an NTUC club performed the ukelele.

 

The Jurong Bird Park brought along a few species of birds for display.

 

For many visitors, it was a chance to meet President Tony Tan Keng Yam."

 

Indonesia:

 

JAKARTA: Trades unions and left-wing parties staged colourful May Day protests across Asia, sharing the theme of better wages and conditions, as living costs spike in fast-growing economies.

 

Thousands of Indonesian workers held Asia's biggest rally, demanding better pay and job security, watched warily by a heavy police and army contingent.

 

Carrying banners saying "raise our salaries" and "stop outsourcing contracts", more than 9,000 workers gathered at Jakarta's main roundabout before marching to the state palace.

 

Around 16,000 police and soldiers were deployed to guard the protest, Jakarta police spokesman Rikwanto told reporters.

Hong Kong:

Raising the minimum wage was the main demand also for about 5,000 workers, domestic helpers and activists who held a noisy procession through central Hong Kong, clashing cymbals and chanting demands on the city's incoming government.

 

"The problem with Hong Kong is that the wealth is concentrated on a small number of people, many people are still living in poverty," university professor Fernando Cheung, who teaches social work, said at the rally.

 

"That's why Hong Kong has one of the world's highest income gaps between rich and poor. We urgently need a redistribution of wealth," he said.

Philippine:

In Manila, about 3,000 workers and activists marched to the presidential palace, bearing a giant effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino.

 

They carried banners saying "raise our pay now" and "fight for socialism".

 

But in a Labour Day speech, Aquino said: "If our wages go even higher, will foreign investor put his money here? Our economy could fall even further behind."

Taiwan:

Denouncing the increases, more than 1,000 workers took to the streets in downtown Taipei for a Labour Day rally that also condemned workplace exploitation.

 

"Oppose exploitation" and "oppose double hikes," the protesters shouted, waving matching placards.

 

Timor Leste:

 

In Timor Leste, Asia's poorest nation which this month celebrates a decade of formal independence from Indonesia, police fired warning shots and arrested 84 people to disperse some 500 protesters calling for higher wages.

 

Police said they were forced to intervene to break up the "illegal demonstration" after protesters began hurling stones and marching to a hotel in Dili where some staff had recently been laid off.

Spain:

 

In Spain, suffering the industrialised world's highest jobless rate of 24.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, the major unions called protests in about 80 cities.

 

Tens of thousands massed in central Madrid's Neptuno square, decrying the jobless queue, new labour reforms that make it easier and cheaper to fire workers, and a budget squeeze in health care and education.

 

"Total Violence, You Are Robbing Us of Home and Bread!" said a banner brandished by 51-year-old Josefa Martinez Fernandez, adding that her two daughters in their 20s were out of work.

 

"The young who had work have been thrown out," she said.

 

Greece:

 

Thousands rallied in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities around Greece, five days ahead of cliffhanger general elections with voters fed up with years of austerity.

 

"No One Alone, Together We Will Get There!" read a banner draped on a stage in Athens' central Kotzia square.

 

Polls indicate that Greeks are fleeing the main parties for smaller groups in revenge over a European Union-IMF economic recovery plan that has brought repeated waves of pay and pension cuts.

France:

In Paris, the French presidential election race overcast the day as three powerful political movements battled for attention with competing rallies five days before polling day.

 

Marine Le Pen's anti-immigrant far-right National Front kicked off the May Day events with several thousand supporters marching through central Paris in memory of Joan of Arc, who has become a far-right icon.

 

Le Pen, who scored a record 18 per cent in the April 22 first round, led the march and urged supporters to abstain rather than back President Nicolas Sarkozy or Socialist Francois Hollande in the run-off.

 

Waving a sea of blue, white and red French flags, Le Pen's supporters chanted "France for the French!" and "This Is Our Home!" as they marched to the Place de l'Opera.

 

and the winner of all rallies......

 

 

Russia:

MOSCOW: Russia's president-elect Vladimir Putin on Tuesday joined over 150,000 people in a Soviet-style march through Moscow to celebrate labour day and show off public support ahead of his inauguration.

 

Accompanied by kitsch brass music and surrounded by multi-coloured balloons, Putin and outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev led the most extensive May Day march in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

 

Police said around 150,000 people took part in the "Holiday of Labour and Spring" march in Moscow, by coincidence similar to the numbers said by the opposition to have shown up at anti-Putin demonstrations over the last months.

 

 

We are very lucky, our rallies is just "Open House at Istana" where thousands comes & goes.....

 

 

 

 

 

[Maxus-MIFA9]

for us, just another PUBLIC Holiday....

 

 

 

 

[Jman888]

for us, just another PUBLIC Holiday....

 

 

yah after watching the news, i told my wife.... in May Day, people in other countries go protesting, etc.

 

my wife said, yalor people here go shopping and watch Avengers [laugh]

[Babyt]

Our MAY rally more like pappy rally. i see the coys taking part....like all mostly gov linked.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

yah after watching the news, i told my wife.... in May Day, people in other countries go protesting, etc.

 

my wife said, yalor people here go shopping and watch Avengers

 

yup.... got stuck for 45 minutes at PS car park waiting for lots....

 

cos ppl park there to visit Istana..

[Donut]

Our MAY rally more like pappy rally. i see the coys taking part....like all mostly gov linked.

 

 

NTUC rally.................

[Donut]

yup.... got stuck for 45 minutes at PS car park waiting for lots....

 

cos ppl park there to visit Istana..

 

i also went to Istana open house, but i'm smarter, i didnt drive at all, knowing that parking in PS will be a nightmare. I just took train. fast and cheap

 

next time, u can park at Park Mall lah!!!! you need to do some walking exercise anyway

[Maxus-MIFA9]

i also went to Istana open house, but i'm smarter, i didnt drive at all, knowing that parking in PS will be a nightmare. I just took train. fast and cheap

 

next time, u can park at Park Mall lah!!!! you need to do some walking exercise anyway

 

No lar....... I forgot Istana got 'open house', if I know, I would have avoid PS and go to Suntec City Carrefour...

Edited May 2, 2012 by Picnic06

[Darthrevan]

yah after watching the news, i told my wife.... in May Day, people in other countries go protesting, etc.

 

my wife said, yalor people here go shopping and watch Avengers

 

as we all know..uniquely sinkapor