MNCs In S'pore Tells GARMENT "Fuck You"!

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

I had a dream last night! Everywhere I went, every body including children were wearing T-shirts with the words printed in large font, front and back "What Am We Paying You For?" It was just a dream!:(

YES ....WE NEED T SHIRTS LIKE THAT.

Why hasnt any S'pore entreprenaur done it yet. Message should be suttle yet people will reconize the hidden messages against pappies.

 

[DrPanacea]

<<Ah! The famous Harimau Yak Cock, the one who said, " No chicken, eat fish."
Wonder PAP passed her?>>

Soon someone will say "No bread? Let them eat cake."
The last person in history that said this went to the guillotine.

 

[theblackhole]

people in high positions and in seats of power can talk what they like...no meat eat fish...no bread eat cake....no cake eat crumbs...no crumbs eat dung!!!!

u die your business - that's the underlying philosophy.you work your own life. don't expect anything from this world class benevolent garment. you go in with eyes wide open.so don't blame anybody. it's your greed that kills you.

 

[2lanu]

The MNCs are not obliged to explain to anyone the reasons for hiring and firing. They do not need to ask the gahment for any permission.

Did our ministers ask the taxpayers for permission to increase their salaries?

Both parties are making their presence felt. And we know whatever Halimah spouted it would not change the situation.

Talk about white scums' salaries, they upped it 33% and pull back 15% ONLY. They had been keeping mum about this. And if there is a upturn, they will up at 88% of that crap "7 occupation nonsense"

I expected them to threaten the mass come next election again.

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

We need T Shirts to unify the country against the scums in white.

Print the shirts someone. Mr. Brown? Talking cock?

 

[angry_one]

The solution is simple, without interfering directly in companies.

Implement minimum wage and equal employment terms for both locals and foreigners. Then companies will not retrench a good local based on saving costs. The best people will stay on merit alone.

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

The solution is simple, without interfering directly in companies.

Implement minimum wage and equal employment terms for both locals and foreigners. Then companies will not retrench a good local based on saving costs. The best people will stay on merit alone.

The best Singaporeans are not given a chance if you do not tow the line.

Are our ministars the best in S'pore? What a joke.

Are the people leading the garment linked MNCs the best? What a joke.

You want equality? Kick them out first.

A T Shirt is a good rallying point for all S'poreans.

 

[no_faith]

If I am Sony spokeman, I sure tell Halimah that DBS also just cut like that without giving reason why must Sony.

i agreed la.
when DBS cut, where is NTUC?
nw mncs cut, NTUC try to act helpful for the ppl. dun be hypocrite la.

sumtimes it is better to remain silent. dun anyhow tok.

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Hehe this morning Parkway says 'fuck you' too.

If ang mo can do, locals can do better.

 

[chewed]

Well, its inevitable that MNCs will leave Singapore because of high costs. Either they move to China and India or they shut up more operations- or even do both.

That's why we have to move away from cheap manufacturing. The fact is that MNCs can produce MP3 players, cheap computer CPU boards and digital camera parts easily in developing countries. Singapore cannot sustain such manufacturing anymore since wage differences are so vast between here and in the two major countries in the region.

Because of this, and because Singapore cannot afford to depress the current lowly wage levels, Singapore has to find a new economical policy. And it has to be vastly different- and besides tourism is not a good substantial economical policy. Tourism too depends on an economical boom- and so far tourism has suffered around the world due to a downturn in spending.

try telling that to the EDB/Spring or whatever it's name is now.

They are still dreaming abt FDI, intending to devalue SG $ to make SG more attractive to "investment".

 

[yellow_people]

Halimah Yacob, Deputy Secretary—General, NTUC, said: "What these two companies will have to do is to explain the circumstances under which these retrenchments are being carried out, that they have exhausted all other possibilities and not just merely say this is the headquarters’ instruction to them."

The companies don't have to explain jackshit to either Madam Halimah, NTUC, MOM or for that matter the govt. Halimah knows this very well. What they have are just guidelines which a company can chose to follow or ignore it outright if it wishes to do so. There is nothing Halimah can do about it as there is nothing stated in the employment act which makes any of these guidelines enforceable.

 

[tonychat]

PAP thinks that they are the mighty lord that expect others to do as he says. Give me a break. They better change their attitude or else more will not come in and invest.

 

[The_Latest_H]

try telling that to the EDB/Spring or whatever it's name is now.

They are still dreaming abt FDI, intending to devalue SG $ to make SG more attractive to "investment".

We still need FDI, but in a different way. Low-end manufacturing will go the way of the dodo, and we have to accept that we only can have high-end manufacturing.

Stuff like solar panels, built for solar plants around the world, water turbines for water dams, wind turbines for wind farms, nano-technology for under-ocean wire cables and all of that are for high end manufacturing, and these would need employees who are more highly skilled, and better educated. Some will need university degrees to do such jobs.

And these jobs pay well. And most likely locals would get such jobs. Engineering in Singapore will get a boost in this green tech sector. The crux is that whether PAP would accept such new technology; they have previously been shown to be adverse to new trends. That's why they have often dived in late, and when the market has already peaked.

 

[yellow_people]

We still need FDI, but in a different way. Low-end manufacturing will go the way of the dodo, and we have to accept that we only can have high-end manufacturing.

What is once high end manufacturing will become common technology.

The trouble with the WP is that is very much caught and enamored by the PAP economic ideology that it tries to ape the PAP by re-inventing past PAP economic successes that worked in the 70s and 80s - instead of wafer fabs, we will now build green tech plants like solar. This is why it calls itself the alternative party. Its thinking is still well within the PAP OB markers.

Stuff like solar panels, built for solar plants around the world, water turbines for water dams, wind turbines for wind farms, nano-technology for under-ocean wire cables and all of that are for high end manufacturing, and these would need employees who are more highly skilled, and better educated. Some will need university degrees to do such jobs.

And these jobs pay well. And most likely locals would get such jobs. Engineering in Singapore will get a boost in this green tech sector. The crux is that whether PAP would accept such new technology; they have previously been shown to be adverse to new trends. That's why they have often dived in late, and when the market has already peaked.

The PAP has actually tried all this and more from the mid 80s and are still trying. Fine arts, micro-biology, robotics, nano-tech, education, all the R&D and more including promoting creativity and entrepreneurs. Why has there been little success?

Firstly you need real talent (local or otherwise) and we simply do not have enough of them. Our local graduates are rote learners. A massive overhaul of the education, top down is needed and it will take a generation to produce results. You need a free press, allow for free exchange of ideas and have an education system that is less restrictive; allow the freedom to pursue one's passion.

I do not see that happening in Singapore while we have the PAP in power. I still don't see that happening if we have Low Thia Khiang and his WP in charge. Low alluded to this fact when he said that Singapore is not ready for Western styled democracy but Asian style democracy (and he party still has one seat in parliament) - i.e. deference to the leader; the govt of the day will decide what's best for you. You can't have Singaporean slaves when you educate them to be masters.

Corporations are not going to invest billions of dollars if not trillions to transfer technology (intellectual property) and setup businesses in Singapore to teach locals how to build solar panels, etc. They are better of doing it in places like India and China if they want to where its not only cheaper but where there is likely a lot more talent.

 

[The_Latest_H]

Well, I never said it would take just a day to transform anything. It's just that the PAP is not willing to make its own sacrifices in order to secure the future of the country and its people.

The longer it drags its feet on the economical policy and change in direction, the worse off we would be in comparison to our neighbours and fellow developed nations in an economical recovery.

 

[Zeitgeist]

The only way forward is to have more people with the clairvoyance of Miss Ho Ching! Ummph! No shit!

 

[chewed]

We still need FDI, but in a different way. Low-end manufacturing will go the way of the dodo, and we have to accept that we only can have high-end manufacturing.

Stuff like solar panels, built for solar plants around the world, water turbines for water dams, wind turbines for wind farms, nano-technology for under-ocean wire cables and all of that are for high end manufacturing, and these would need employees who are more highly skilled, and better educated. Some will need university degrees to do such jobs.

And these jobs pay well. And most likely locals would get such jobs. Engineering in Singapore will get a boost in this green tech sector. The crux is that whether PAP would accept such new technology; they have previously been shown to be adverse to new trends. That's why they have often dived in late, and when the market has already peaked.

H,

yes, SG should have moved up the value chain long time ago. Instead we still doing low level contract manufacturing.

 

[The_Latest_H]

What is once high end manufacturing will become common technology.

The trouble with the WP is that is very much caught and enamored by the PAP economic ideology that it tries to ape the PAP by re-inventing past PAP economic successes that worked in the 70s and 80s - instead of wafer fabs, we will now build green tech plants like solar. This is why it calls itself the alternative party. Its thinking is still well within the PAP OB markers.



The PAP has actually tried all this and more from the mid 80s and are still trying. Fine arts, micro-biology, robotics, nano-tech, education, all the R&D and more including promoting creativity and entrepreneurs. Why has there been little success?

Firstly you need real talent (local or otherwise) and we simply do not have enough of them. Our local graduates are rote learners. A massive overhaul of the education, top down is needed and it will take a generation to produce results. You need a free press, allow for free exchange of ideas and have an education system that is less restrictive; allow the freedom to pursue one's passion.

Actually the main problem is not that we don't have Ph.D A*star scholars doing all these research. We have a whole chunk of them doing them in Micropolis.

Unfortunately because the system is so politicised, with the A*Star scholars virtually piping the PAP tune, they are not so inclined to do real research and development, in order to produce new products for mass development on the high end scale.

The reason on why R&D development is so much better in Europe and in other countries is because the development side is bipartisan, and non-politicised. To these governments, even if you're a scientist whose social values are more conservative, you'd be hired as long as you do something good and make effort to invent something. Merit counts more than political stances.

In Singapore, the PAP has hired some foreign scientists who are now a bit old, and some whom have already cloned the likes of Dolly the sheep(which experiment is now 11 years old) and has had not invented anything new since. And when you add up the politicised system, the moral corruption that springs out of it and the lack of imagination shown by A*Star elite, PAP-linked scholars, its no wonder, the PAP has nothing to show for its efforts.

And that's why S'pore hasn't really produced any product that can be on the route to being manufactured that is high end, and to a high amount for sale.

So even if they have put in money and labour into these efforts, when its too politicised, and too late, the PAP have dived in too late, and the money spent are essentially wasted.

An alternative government will have to spend many years undoing the untold damage to the system caused by such actions by the PAP.