are we prepared for such a situation as who do we look for
if our rice bowl is at risk NTWU ,NTUC ,both are useless ,or yes
sir no sir .three bags of fools.
To be honest, go thru proper system as lay out, NTWU is the
transport Unions, MOM will not entertain union's members who got
union, they should go thru NTWU, which is affliated to NTUC, the
issue lies on 5 and 5.5 days work.
To force the issue, member can ask NTWU to concilate with SMRT
at MOM office, this is a pre emptive measure before going into
court, if Mom is unable to make a decision or convince any party to
give and take, then the next level will be the arbitration court, a
court that only handle industrial dispute, the arguement member
must give is base on 2 points
1. A better balancing of lifestyle, (even SAF today are on 5
days per week)
2. compensating the nos of working hrs on weekday to cover the
1/2 day on saturday
Many companies in Singapore had in a way cut short their lunch
hrs from 1 hr to 1/2 hrs, shipyard had cut off the breaktimes to
provide a 5 days workweek for their employees,
Bus company must therefore work on a win win situation. I work
at yard as contractor, everyday there is a 15 minutes 10am and 3 pm
break, when the management decided to go on 5 days, they exchange
with the members/workers to forgo the breaks,
However workers are allowed to drink at their worksite, this
eliminated the time to walk to the canteen and the time to walk
back and climb the ship, given the 5 days, workers are happy,
company are also happy because there will be less stoppage, and if
workers is need to work on saturday, it is consider OT, workers are
therefore happy.
It is therefore important for the tripartite partners to find a
niche to gain a win win situation and not to write off drivers by
giving remarks such as "you can resign"
