Tag: Labour Day
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May Day Rally 2014
Having missed last year’s event because I made like many other Singaporeans and downed tools for the long weekend, I was invited to my first May Day Rally on Thursday, and came away impressed with the candour of the labour leaders, and slightly disappointed with the lack of awareness of the same. With Cheaper, Better,…
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This Blog Has Been Rallied
I’m a bit excited about this blog being highlighted (at around the 28-minute mark of the video) at an NTUC May Day Rally. Never in a million years would I have thunk it. Seriously. My friends are making fun of me. If you’re at all interested in the rest of the rally – do watch…
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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…
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My Father And The Gangster Fella Lee Kuan Yew
I remember the story my father told me about the time he was a clerk in a bus company in Singapore. It was some time in the 1950s, and some of us will recall that these were troubled times. I didn’t get much detail from the many times my father told and retold the story…