Can MOM keep its promise to put Singaporeans first, beyond rhetorics?

[Confuseous]

Let me illustrate what I mean.

One of the government’s aims is to have a foreign workforce that is only one third of the total workforce in Singapore. This might just be another play on numbers and words if the immigration agency decides to open the floodgates again to aspiring citizens and permanent residents, like what it did just prior to the Singapore General elections 2011.

Foreign workers would just be assimilated into the PR figures and the ratio of foreign workers being only one third of the work force can be then easily met and maintained.

To prevent this, there has to be transparency on what is the rate of conversion of foreigners to PR. Knowing the conversion rate will enable Singaporeans to ascertain if the government is keeping its promises of checking immigration and ensuring that local Singaporeans do not lose out on potential jobs to foreign “talents”.

Making promises to ensure the Tripartite system of employers, workers and the government relevant in Singapore is important for the improvement of the labour force. With this in mind, a question one should ask would be what power does a worker or his union have to bargain for a fairer working environment or terms? If workers have no means of communicating

- http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/10/can-mom-keep-its-promise-to-put-singaporeans-first/

 

[Leongsam]

what power does a worker or his union have to bargain for a fairer working environment or terms? If workers have no means of communicating

That's another reason to take to the streets! Come on.. get off your butt, abandon your keyboard and do something in the real world for a change.

 

[ls-knnbccb]

thank you leongsam for advice of advises. i hope you have not loose your marbles like your pants which is becoming lose.

 

[erection2015]

Boss,


When you ADVISE us sinkies your ADVICE should not make you sound like a LOOSE cannon. On the streets ? We will surely LOSE

:p

QUOTE=Leongsam;848450]That's another reason to take to the streets! Come on.. get off your butt, abandon your keyboard and do something in the real world for a change.[/QUOTE]