SMRT Bus Drivers' Accommodation Not Fit For Human !!!

[sleaguepunter]

like that simple lor, give them same salary as msian drivers but kick them off the dorm and dont provide transport for them to and fro the bus terminal. liddat they cannot complain liao.

 

[Mdm Tang]

In Malaysian Ringgit ( Malaysian SMRT Driver ) : S$1,400 pm x RM$2.45 = RM$3,430

 

[mollusk]

Construction workers dorm more worst but they never go on strike.greedy drivers....

 

[Mdm Tang]

like that simple lor, give them same salary as msian drivers but kick them off the dorm and dont provide transport for them to and fro the bus terminal. liddat they cannot complain liao.

like means S$1,400 x 6 = RMB$8,400

 

[Mdm Tang]

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Jail Time Waiting ???



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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/bus-drivers-singapores-first-strike-25-years-233706807--finance.html
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Bus drivers in Singapore's first strike in 25 years



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Singapore Tuesday issued a warning to mainland Chinese bus drivers, who are staging the first strike in the city-state for more than 25 years, an act that could land them in prison.

A total of 102 Chinese drivers working for state-linked transport firm SMRT began their wildcat strike over pay on Monday, refusing to board a shuttle bus from their dormitory to a nearby depot.

An agreement was hammered out to convince them to return to work, but SMRT said more than 60 drivers still did not turn up for duty on Tuesday.

Strikes and other forms of industrial action are extremely rare in Singapore, where the labour movement works closely with the government and private business, making the port city an attractive place for foreign investment.

The last illegal strike was in 1980 and involved the Singapore Airlines pilot's union, the manpower ministry said, while the last legal strike was in 1986.

"Taking the law into your own hands is wrong. This illegal strike is not acceptable and would be dealt with in accordance to the law," Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin told reporters.

"By taking matters into their own hands, the drivers have clearly crossed the line," he said, adding they have "disrupted public transport services and Singapore's industrial harmony".

He said strikes are illegal for workers in "essential services" such as transport unless they give 14-day notice of their intent and comply with other requirements.


The penalty for staging an illegal strike is a fine of up to Sg$2,000 ($1,636), or a maximum prison term of one year, or both.

While the drivers have their grievances, they should have resorted to legal ways to have their complaints heard, Tan said.

"The government views these disruptions very seriously. We have zero tolerance for such unlawful action."

One of the Chinese drivers told reporters on Monday he and his colleagues -- who are not union members -- felt aggrieved over a disparity in pay between Chinese and Malaysian bus drivers.

Singapore has been hiring bus drivers from China and Malaysia because of a chronic shortage of manpower.

SMRT is 54 percent owned by state investment firm Temasek Holdings.

 

[halsey02]

Sounds like a human rights issue emerging...

Headline should be :

SINGAPORE - A HUB FOR NEW ERA FORCED LABOUR?

Nobody force them to come here to work, get this right. They have done their homework before they commit to a job here in SINgapore, they weren't force at gunpoint to sign the dotted lines....they know what they in for...don't get con by the Chinamen!!

 

[Mdm Tang]

can post a copy of their driver's

Employment contract here ? :(


tks .

 

[ray_of_hope]

"They may say that we are given accommodation, but have you seen the accommodation they give us? It isn't fit for humans," she said in Mandarin. "Eight of us share a room, and there isn't any walking space between our beds. I've also been bitten by rats and insects on multiple occasions before."

They came to S'pore seeking to improve their lives but, if the above remarks are to be believed, they ended up in a cesspool of filth and squalor. It's positively Dickensian! Thank goodness I do not take public transport, as you wonder what is the psychological state of these people when they are on the road.

 

[wendychan]

as you wonder what is the psychological state of these people when they are on the road.

one possible.... RUNNING OF RED LIGHTS..................
and werent some innocent pedestrians killed before?

 

[watchman8]

like that simple lor, give them same salary as msian drivers but kick them off the dorm and dont provide transport for them to and fro the bus terminal. liddat they cannot complain liao.

Then no china driver talent will want to come here to work, and smrt has to increase salaries to attract enough locals and johoreans. Oh, what a disaster

 

[HARDAttack]

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Just Look at the Number of Relationships Declared by the SMRT Board of Directors !!!

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?ticker=MRT:SP

Bro, all kelong one lah. Most of them never even go for the AGM, just take fees only.

 

[halsey02]

Still, eight sharing a small room is ridiculous. If army bunks were cramped like that, Mindef would be fucked upside down.

Somehow, what's illegal for renting HDB flats is perfectly okay when it comes to dorms.

Double standards? Definitely.

Have you been to Woodlands Dormitory? maybe you should one day go & check it out. It is an approved worker's dormitory, built to specifications by URA, SCDF & MOM. URA does their weekly inspection & SCDF etc too, not to mention NEA, NParks etc.. unless they have sleeping on the job, then there is nothing we can say?. The dormitory have a gym, with exercise equipment ( just as good as any out there), billiards tables, table tennis & other recreational facilities, they have a mini mart & a food court etc..

Do not be con by the Ah Tiong's...8 to a room is approved, depending on the size of the room, in the past for years, it was 20 to a room. MOM made sure that, this was phased out & all the illegal housing in Geylangs & elsewhere, including Joo Chiat etc..

One thing you have to note , the Ah Tiong's are well known to live worse than "Swine", the dormitory rooms of the Banglas are the cleanest, come the Indians who are filthy, the PRC's are the worse, even the filthiest Kek lengs won't want to share a room with them. The Thais are untidy, Filipinoes & the Myanmese are neat!! but not that clean...the fact is, the Banglas have good house keeping.

So, do not be CON by the Man from PRC!!, the dormitory rooms are not fit for such humans from PRC:p