Thursday, December 13

Tweet: Change SMRT CEO like the way we change Chelsea manager



Meanpheyaszmyn RT @: If only we could change SMRT CEO like the way we change Chelsea manager #sosingaporean

How has PAP let us down after GE2011? Let me count the ways:

I read below interesting comments by someone on FB, I felt uneasy after reflecting the achievements, expectations, and especially Singaporeans tolerance levels. I've seen worst in other countries.


How has PAP let us down after GE2011? let me count the ways by Lovecraft RavenEve :

1) Transport fees increase (2nd increase may occur in 2013)
2) “Ponding” episodes at orchard and Bt Timah
3) MRT and LRT break down

4) Tertiary school fees increase
5) Electricity tariffs increase (twice!)
6) COE increase (at least twice)
7) Civil servant’s sex and corruption scandal
8 ) increase of CPF minimum sum from $131,000 -》 $139,000 without consulting citizens
9) Service and Conservancy Charges (S&CC) for flats, shops/offices and market/cooked food stalls increase
10)ERP price increase
11) LKY and PM Lee wants to increase Singapore's population to 6million despite our infrastructural constraints
12) Privatising essential essential services like SMRT that only focus in maximize profit instead of providing a service to the people.

Saturday, December 8

Industrial Relations in Singapore version 2012

Read this interesting comment on Facebook sometime today.....written by Mr Tan

What started as employment term dispute, escalated into a workers' rights issue when MOM Minister declared that the government has "zero tolerance" for industrial disharmony and decided to clean up the shit of the transgressions by a corporation. To use the weight of the law to punish workers seeking to redress their working terms undermines the fundamentals of tripartism we tried to build over the years. It is a travesty of our legal system if laws are used to maintain our "industrial harmony" record rather than to protect the vulnerable. Apparently some of the workers are charged under a temporary legislation passed in 1955 - a law constructed primarily to deal with gangsterism back then - this is rubbing salt into the wound. The negativities the case has generated is instructive that the government cannot continue to use an old template of governance that is quickly becoming irrelevant.

The root cause of the problem is the perturbingly poor working conditions of lower rung migrant workers, who are employed in construction sector so that we have our nice million dollar condo and flats, cleaning our streets and estates so that we are a beautiful clean and green city, driving our public transport so that we can transit from place to place safely and conveniently, tending our children and aged while we focus on creating wealth for our family, in short an integral part of the national economic achievement we are so proud of. Migrant workers are economic participants not economic digit to dispense off when they become a social burden.