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[makapaaa]

Hawker cry foul over steep cleaning fees hike !

National Environment Agency (NEA) will be increasing the cleaning fees at 9 hawker centres from next week.

At least three groups of hawkers have spoken out against the move by NEA.

At the Holland Village Market and Food Centre, the cleaning fees charged to stallholders will increase by 156% from $240 to $614 a month.

Mr Michael Shee, who runs a stall at Holland Village, said, “At the end of the day, it’s the consumer who has to pay the price.”

Another hawker centre facing similar fee hikes is the Commonwealth Crescent Market.

Hawkers at these 2 centres have approached their MP Chan Chun Sing for help.

At Tanglin Halt Market, monthly fees will jump 79% from $268 to $480 and at Maxwell Food Centre, it will be 92% from $260 to $500.

Other affected hawker centres include Adam Food Centre, Geylang Serai Market and Newton Food Centre.

The 9 affected hawker centres all come under a single contract with cleaning contractor Clean Solutions.

Hawkers at other centres with different cleaning contracts are said to be paying only between $200 and $300 a month.

A quick check on the Internet reveals that the executive director of Clean Solutions is a person by the name of Tan Hang Kian [Link]. Subsequent checks also reveal that there is another person called Tan Hang Kian who is a grassroots leader and Vice-Chairman of the Siglap Citizens’ Consultative Committee [Link]. It is unclear if they are the same person.

Meanwhile, an NEA spokesman has replied to media enquiry, saying that the new rates were mainly due to higher wages for cleaners and training costs by cleaning contractors. She said the increased costs were “fair and representative of market rates for such services”.

However, NEA acknowledged that the hawkers were not consulted over the new contracts.

NEA manages 107 hawker centres and markets and hires cleaning contractors to clean them.

It is strange that NEA is hiring the contractors when it is the hawkers who are paying for the cleaning service. Perhaps the hawker centres should just by-pass NEA and go ahead to hire the cleaning contractors themselves.​

 

[Bigfuck]

NEA spokesman actually do business or have pHD in economics? What is called fair and representative and based on what economic basis? CPI is 5% . This fuckshit rise is 156% Nobody's salaries rise 156% except PAP and PAP dogs. Recent tender results show a hawker stall going for 3900SGD at Maxwell. This is an additional 6.15% cost on top of the current rent for the case of maxwell. NEA officers can make 4-5KSGD by blabbering and cannot make the food your hawker cooks for you. For the hawker to make the same pure tax payer funded profit of an NEA officer, the hawker needs to generate at least 10K of revenue. Any lesser in revenue would be really selling you shit. Do you do a real independent bacteria count to see if it has gone up or done with the price hike? Maxwell hawker stall operaters do not have nice desks and air con rooms to work in and definitely work longer and physically harder than the NEA pen jockeys.

 

[Cruxx]

NEA spokesman actually do business or have pHD in economics? What is called fair and representative and based on what economic basis? CPI is 5% . This fuckshit rise is 156% Nobody's salaries rise 156% except PAP and PAP dogs. Recent tender results show a hawker stall going for 3900SGD at Maxwell. This is an additional 6.15% cost on top of the current rent for the case of maxwell. NEA officers can make 4-5KSGD by blabbering and cannot make the food your hawker cooks for you. For the hawker to make the same pure tax payer funded profit of an NEA officer, the hawker needs to generate at least 10K of revenue. Any lesser in revenue would be really selling you shit. Do you do a real independent bacteria count to see if it has gone up or done with the price hike? Maxwell hawker stall operaters do not have nice desks and air con rooms to work in and definitely work longer and physically harder than the NEA pen jockeys.

This is what happens when you have warped incentives in society. Government agencies in sinkieland are incentivised not to promote the interests of taxpayers and provide quality service but to accumulate wealth at their expense in a zero-sum game. The government should be charged for their egregious dereliction of duty and naked corruption.

 

[winnipegjets]

What kind of training do cleaners need to have? Gimme a break ...this is a pure rip-off. Stall owners should have the option to find their own cleaners if they don't agree with the rip-off charge. Can stall owners raise their prices by 100 percent? Of course not.

 

[sta1100]

Hawker cannot increase price, but NEA can

 

[ZorrorroZ]

Why you all like to complain? NEA needs to recover cost to pay for brompton bikes... so have to increase revenue somewhere.

 

[johnny333]

This is a very good development. In the next GE it will be easier for Singaporeans to vote for a world class gov't /s

 

[Boliao]

This just a plot by the government... Punish the citizens by increase the fees so local and businesses will complain and they will reprent. Push the blame on having to hire locals and ta-da! the flow gate for foreigners can open up widely again.

 

[laksaboy]

Well, the 60% are content to be ruled by plutocrats and kleptocrats... this is what they're going to get.

Plutocracy, also known as plutonomy or plutarchy, is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service.

 

[chonburifc]

hawkers at these 2 centres have approached their mp chan chun sing for help.

hahahahahaha

 

[laksaboy]

Tanjong Pagar GRC eh? No point asking them who they had voted for. It's like asking a castrated man whom he had sex with last night.

 

[greedy and cunning]

Well, the 60% are content to be ruled by plutocrats and kleptocrats... this is what they're going to get.

Plutocracy, also known as plutonomy or plutarchy, is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service.

wooaaaah ! english language really beri poweeerfool. :p :p :p

even have these 2 words that describe succinctlyyyyyy what those scums are doing.

 

[cowbellc]

usually the cleaners are old and feeble.
by increasing the charges, they can increase the pay of the those cleaners and at the same time justify their performances (take care of the needy and doing part for the society) and KPI and due for their bonuses.

it just that we are the sheeps. 羊毛出在羊身上.

 

[laksaboy]

by increasing the charges, they can increase the pay of the those cleaners

No chance in hell that's going to happen.

 

[zeddy]

So how..????

Will the pay of these cleaners be increased to 60% or will they still be bringing $600 after CPF deductions every month..????

Bastard PAP scums as usual enriching their coffers while peasants are being screwed in their backsides once again..

 

[cowbellc]

Using percentage as a informer has always lead to a misleading and irrelevant figure.
A small increase in the cleaner's pay might reflect a significant jump in percentile.
Let's say a cleaner pay is 800pm, and the pay increament is 240, so he will be getting 1040, and according to some MP, he can jolly well afford a HDB flat, and the percent increase is a whopping 30%!
Under the New Performance bonus, 30% is a justification!
The best of all, 30% come from which source? 羊毛出在羊身上.

 

[Cestbon]

Maybe hawker can set up committee hire cleaner contractor themself. Any thing go wrong with cleaning service cannot blame NEA anymore.

 

[halsey02]

We DESERVE IT!

 

[Cestbon]

Expected price increase $20~$50.

 

[Cruxx]

Mark my words. Within the next five years, you'll need to use a credit card whenever you order a plate of Char Kway Tiao.