Tag: Industrial Relations

  • Being A Good Boss Man

    I’ve been an employer for several years now, and when I first started, it was easy to look for advice from other “bosses”. Whether that advice was good or not is another matter. What’s been evident is the difference in attitudes between the younger generation of employers and the older. Last year when one of…

  • Want Your Union To Have A Greater Say? Join Them

    When news broke of the SMRT bus drivers’ strike last year, the first thought that came to mind was, “Oh no, when are they going to be arrested”? Even before the MOM made a statement about the strike (which traditional media called “bus drivers did not turn up for work”) being illegal, I knew the…

  • Cheaper Better Faster

      The Labour Movement should not let Lim Swee Say it himself. Not since the 1990s, when Goh Chok Tong spouted all manner of football analogies, has anyone generated so much interest over his own slogans and turns of phrases. It’s been three and a half years since the NTUC’s Secretary-General first exhorted the country’s…