The aftermath of the SMRT PRC bus drivers' illegal strike

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The illegal strike has caused the influential Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) to be "distressed and concerned". The SNEF saw it necessary to issue an advisory to its members comprising 20,000 companies to review procedures for dealing with workers' grievances, whether unforseen or otherwise, so as not to be caught in an untenable strike situation. The Government could not be unaware that this illegal strike could provide an unconscious stimulus to the large colony of foreign workers that they could, where they consider appropriate, seek a more equitable return for their labour. There is a danger that the Government's industrial harmony dream may disintegrate, hence the Government's exhortations to employers to address workers' grievances before they deteriorate The motto should ideally be "industrial peace with justice".

- http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.sg/2012/12/the-aftermath-of-smrt-prc-bus-drivers.html