The irony is that instead of championing the rights of platform workers, the Workers Party turned the debate on the Platform Workers Bill into an attack against labour unions.
As Minister Gan Kim Yong outlined at the 15th MTI Economic Dialogue this past week (Aug 28), there are future opportunities for Singapore and Singaporean workers to seize in this changing world. His words come backed with our Government’s ...
Navigating and balancing the needs of different interest groups is not easy. But harmonious industrial relations prove that tripartism, along with the cooperation and trust it brings, works better than the infighting and bickering that characterises ...
“This fight is about a decent life for the workers.” Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said this about his early work alongside Singapore’s labour unions during the 1950s, reminisced former Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Cong ...
The labour disputes often seen in other countries, where worker strikes and employer distrust ultimately hurt ordinary people, were not for our founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew. It was a pragmatic viewpoint stemming from Mr Lee’s l ...
We want Singapore’s women to realise their full potential. So, we are enthused over the three Learning Journeys presented during Support for SG Families, our Women’s Wing (WW) Annual Conference at the end of last month (Jul 29). As ...
Our stance is clear: There is no room at all for workplace discrimination in Singapore. Not against senior citizens, women, racial minorities, people with disabilities or mental health conditions, or people of faith. When you harnessed an indiv ...