FAP Eunuch: Without FTrashisation, SG Companies Will Fold Up from High Costs

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[h=2]What and Who are responsible for the High Costs? Are SGs Companies Making Losses or OBSCENE PROFITS?

Unfair for SDP Jagwinder Singh to discredit our work in NTUC[/h]

August 24th, 2012 |

Author: Contributions

Jagwinder Singh is being very unfair to everyone who works at the NTUC and all our affiliated unions, which consists of thousands of real, fellow true-blue Singaporeans who put in hard work for a cause we believe in.

We live in a real world with real problems. To use a dictionary to describe our work shows his gross ignorance of the work that we do. Does he know what it really means to protect the workers? Does he think that protecting the workers is to go on strike, hold banners, refuse to work? He obviously has never in his life have to help a worker fight for his right.

A worker’s fundamental need is to work for salary to feed himself and everyone that depends on him. To do that, he needs a job. To have jobs, the economy must thrive. For economy to thrive, businesses must make money. For businesses to make money, workers must be productive.

Therefore, the NTUC and unions work hard to uphold industrial peace. Because we know this is what makes our economy survive, compete, and thrive. This is why we continue to have jobs. We ask businesses to invest in productivity so that workers can earn more pay. We ask them to train the workers so our people can have skills. Skills help workers secure their jobs, and improve their mobility for better jobs. Without industrial peace, these things will be impossible.



We lobby Government agencies to make policies good for workers. We lobbied for workfare income supplement, training subsidies to be given to individual workers and recognize skills across industries. Precisely because the Sec-Gen is in Cabinet, he can lobby for these things.
You think this work is easy? It’s much easier to instigate a group a workers and get them to go on strike!

Just like how easy Jagwinder just typed on his keyboard to come out with an article to discredit all the work that we do. And even for such an easy task, he got his facts wrong. We do not have any employers’ association represented in the labour movement.

I work for the NTUC. I am a born and bred Singaporean. I did not get a scholarship. I do not earn Ministerial pay. Neither do I get voted in during elections for the work that I do. I live in a humble 4-room HDB flat and basically just a very ordinary citizen working hard like everyone else.
Working at the NTUC does not earn me big bucks. But it’s meaningful work to me. I work for a cause. This cause, we call it the Labour Movement. It’s a cause to make the lives of Singaporean workers better. What right does Jagwinder have to discredit everything that I do to score his political points?

=> Just say he is 60% for short lah! Such unproductive use of words!

If he has never in his life tried doing the work I do, deal with what I have to deal with to help another Singaporean worker do better in life, I don’t need his understanding or compliment. But, we welcome to join us and experience it for himself.
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Y
* Comment first appeared in: The crushing of trade unions and workers’ woes – Part 1

 

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[h=2]To Y: Your response shows NTUC is working with Govt and Employers to keep wages low for workers[/h]

August 24th, 2012 |

Author: Contributions

[Reader Ace responding to a letter from reader Y, 'Unfair for SDP Jagwinder Singh to discredit our work in NTUC']


Dear Y,

Your response shows that you are actually protecting the rights of employers instead of the workers because you think in the reverse.

“A worker’s fundamental need is to work for salary to feed himself and everyone that depends on him. To do that, he needs a job. To have jobs, the economy must thrive. For economy to thrive, businesses must make money. For businesses to make money, workers must be productive.”
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This objective that you set for the workers is actually against their interest. The worker’s fundamental need is to ensure that he and his family get the best income from his working ability in the limited time-frameof his useful work life. This will enable him to have a comfortable roof over his head and the ability to raise a family and provide them with the best possible education, healthcare and lifestyle.

The role of the government is to ensure that the economy thrive so that businesses will prosper and thereby create SUITABLE jobs for the CITIZENS. Companies must ensure that their business is productive based on the available resources in Singapore and import resources which are not available locally. If the economy is thriving and any business is unable to do well using current resources, then, the business is not viable. For example, a garment factory would be able to provide lots of jobs using cheap labour but with little added value to the country and citizens. So based on the union’s objective, it is safe to say that Singapore will be opening up many garment factories in the future just to create jobs for workers. Then the employers, government and the union can use a circular argument that Singaporeans are choosy and not interested to do these jobs and so have to bring in more foreign labour.

If this is the role of UNION, why bother to have one in the first place as the employers are fully capable to SPIN the same fallacy. It is therefore the union role to represent the workers and balance the power during wage negotiation so that they can get the best compensation for their work and to block unfair competition in the form of importing cheap foreign labour. Using cheap foreign labour only solves the problem for any business in the short term but it creates numerous long term problems for the country and the people.

This includes overloading our infrastructure, housing, public transport and keeping wages artificially low which means that the standard of living for the workers gets eroded year after year due to inflation.

I am glad that Y finally reveals the actual objective of the NTUC and so we know once and for all what we have suspected for a long time that our unions do not fight for the worker but are working with the employers and government to keep wages low which erodes the standard of living for the workers over the years. It is time for the NTUC to rethink its objective and stay relevant or risk becoming obsolete.

Sincerely,
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Ace
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<CITE class=fn>BK:</CITE>
August 24, 2012 at 6:41 pm BK(Quote)
What are the underlying fundamentals of a Union? Basically, it is the recognition that given the natural power relations, the employers will exploit workers. Hence, unions are formed to harness the collective leverage of the workers to get better terms from the employers.
What PAP does, in the so called tripartite Govt-Union-Business is highly unusual and goes against the grain of human nature; it is creating an incestuous relationship (at the top)with fundamental problems at both the genetic and moral levels.
What will be worst, will be it is a pretense of helping workers but in fact it is a sham to de-leverage workers collective power and enhance profits for business.
But I do believe that some union leaders are working hard to help workers. MP Ang Hin Kee is one of them.
But the “inculcation” of working with Govt behind closed doors, the servitude of bureaucrats to political leaders had damaged the robust and necessary adversarial roles that unions need to embrace to extract better terms for workers.
At the macro level, employers and employees need to work together, but at the micro level, one dollar more for the workers is one dollar less for the business.
Unions like free press must fundamentally take on adversarial roles.

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August 24, 2012 at 6:49 pm Born a British Subject(Quote)
A worker’s fundamental need is to work for salary to feed himself and everyone that depends on him. To do that, he needs a job. To have jobs, the economy must thrive. For economy to thrive, businesses must make money. For businesses to make money, workers must be productive. ===
Yah da, you’re right. Primary school theory. Like the 100 PRCs with a basic pay of $500/- at Panasonic Industry? 100 cheap labour to dislodge 100 Singaporeans workers? Aisay Mr. Y, is NTUC representing local workers or cheap FTs? NTUC is one national body, a labour movement representing unionised workers. Why is NTUC supporting non-unionised FTs and employers. Why do we need one NTUC to represent all other affiliated unions. One day when all the affiliated partners were to abandon NTUC, Mr. Y you’ll jobless, right? Cock Tock King

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August 24, 2012 at 12:57 pm Resident Evil(Quote)
Hello Moniker :Y , tell us about the gap between the rich and poor,the great divide with the have’s and the have not’s.
Tell us about the affordability of a HDB home, CPF contributions, the day to day expenses,school fees,the cleaner, the struggling family when one bread winner loses job,etc….
Tel us about jobs been taken away, losing jobs to foreigners when reaching 35 and above, how are we going to make ends meet?
We are not asking for the sky, just giving the citizens a basic minimum wage scheme seems like asking for the mountains.
Is that a tall order?
Now tell us how meaningful is it for you not knowing the exact cause, when you claim you are proud of being in the Labour Movement and work for a cause to make Singapore workers life better?.
By paying peanuts?