S'pore will need about 30,000 construction workers this year

QX179R SG · 2012-01-28T11:40:34+00:00

Even with technology you still need foreign workers.

QX179R SG

SINGAPORE : Singapore will need about 30,000 construction workers this year to meet its building programme.

National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed this in a written response to a question from West Coast GRC MP Arthur Fong.

Mr Fong wanted to know the impact of the increase in the building of public flats on demand for foreign workers.

Mr Khaw added that with each building programme taking three to five years to complete, the cumulative requirement of construction workers could rise to 45,000 within the next few years.

In 2011, the Housing and Development Board needed 18,000 construction workers for its building programme.

- CNA/ms

MagnificientDiagrams SG

So where are the 30k construction workers going to stay? They are going to buy up all the public flats leaving none for the locals.

troublemaker2005 SG

come on! don;t fuckin bull! the ministers hsould go on site and be a spy 1 day see how the construction workers work! i guy dig the mother asshole while 4 guys watches, then they take turns to dig. that's why we need so many thousands of them every year!

Summer hill SG

So where are the 30k construction workers going to stay? They are going to buy up all the public flats leaving none for the locals.

on the streets,

you see them everywhere

charlize SG

Why should ministers go on site?

Medicated Oil SG

Does he know how many construction workers we have ?

How did he come out with that figure ?

I have serious doubt about the accuracy of what they announced nowadays since they have overspent and overearn the tax payer money.

charlize SG

Does he know how many construction workers we have ?

How did he come out with that figure ?

I have serious doubt about the accuracy of what they announced nowadays since they have overspent and overearn the tax payer money.

You walk on the street and think there could only be 30,000 construction workers?

Summer hill SG

Why should ministers go on site?

they have their... cough cough...ermm

ISD

charlize SG

they have their... cough cough...ermm

ISD

Huh?

Summer hill SG

Huh?

ISD spy for our..cough...cough..erm

Ministers

mancha SG

You walk on the street and think there could only be 30,000 construction workers?

No one check the actual figure.

Anyway they all will go to work in the morning, taking the bus and trains and going home in the evening.together with us.

And all will be off on Sunday and Public Holidays, and they will be at Little India, Lucky Plaza, Golden Mile, Orchard Road.

We gotta share the space with them.

troublemaker2005 SG

Not forgeting sentosa. This nholidays i also dare not go sentosa, will be crowded. i wiaat until 2 days holidays over, take leave and then go snetosa, last time in year 2008 i had one bad experience at the singapore zoo - hundreds of them hogging the place

charlize SG

Sentosa is a good place to relax.

Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.

Summer hill SG

Sentosa is a good place to relax.

Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.

go east coast park lah

troublemaker2005 SG

their tatcic is simple lah. raise rentals, taxes and all business realted costs. allow and relax emploment laws on cheap foreign labors - as an avernue for businesses to take to alleviate the high costs of doing busness here. gahmen will only reclaim lands for business commercial and purposes that will see immediate profits, never look at how much additional land we can reclaim and expand ourselves within our jurisdiction

Then they tell workers we have to take cheaper than the foreigner labor pay to stay competitive, all the crap give you 10 dollars angpows during CNY that go geyland call chicks also not enough

4sg SG

Why they need so many?

Our flats blocks are all precast - no need to pour cement, wield steel.

Only lock the precast material into place wat

Fcukpap SG

looks like the huge quantity means half for construction on the surface...the other half for the future underground works .....lol

but authorities must tighten their approvals and securities as well...

charlize SG

go east coast park lah

Ecp so crowded that even fw don't want to go.

troublemaker2005 SG

yep, and worse we have smart brains to do business but when it cums to dead man, cannot lazy to dig a bigger hole and bury them proper - when the dead man has no identity illegal in sg

i bet now our cemetery is goinig to be more crowded with foreign corpse - please gahmen don;t rais ethe burial land for our dead now? our living arer struggliing hard in live, please make our dead peaceful rest in peace not having to compete for final resting land with the foreign dead

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

Sentosa is a good place to relax.

Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.

priest la...

they also go there to beo the bikinis...