STAGE EARLY 1970s: THE RISE OF MARXIST (Industrial Relation)

STAGE EARLY 1970s: THE RISE OF MARXIST

          In this era, it is the beginning of a new developing country to create their own system after gaining independence from the power that has been colonized them. In this case, we will take Malaysia country as an example to explained how does this period of time had influenced the modern industrial relation.

          As a brief introduction, Malaysia is a country which based on federation which consists of four main independent countries which are Malaya, Singapore (expelled in 1965), Sarawak and Sabah. These countries are together formed the federation on 16 September 1963.

          Malaysia industrial relation is based on the historical element as the citizens are comes from various culture, political views, belief, economic and different origin. The history background of Malaysia is based on the colonization period and the important event of all this is the three level emergencies that totally changed the industrial relation system. This is because, in the third emergency where the election took place in 1969, this is the year where Malaya faced the 31^st May 1969 which shows a bloody tragedy. A special national operation council was formed to investigate what are the factors that lead the tragedy. There are two main factors that lead to that event. The first is the unbalanced economy between the Chinese, Malay, Indian and the second factor is there is no single philosophy that followed by all the citizens.

          As a result, to overcome the problem of unbalanced economy, “New Economy Policy” was formed in 1971 and worked until 1990 which means in 20 years period of time. In addition, because of there is no confirm philosophy that the citizen has to follow or to respect no matter what races you are, then the “Rukun Negara” was formed. The impact of these on modern IR is the government totally controlled every workers and employers activity. For example, in the employee want to do an assembly, they have to seek for permit first. To summaries, the government tried to ensure that the development of Malaysia IR is in line with the economic goals.