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TODAY, Mr Ong finds his stride in union work. As the executive secretary of the National Transport Workers' Union, he says the natural working language and dialect during meetings is Mandarin and Hokkien. 'I realised that I felt very at home. It's like talking to my father and uncles,' he says.
He has spent the past few months negotiating for a pay hike for bus drivers and making sure the Transport Ministry's funding to public transport operators got passed down to drivers. Wage ceilings, which were not raised for 13 years, inched up from $1,560 to $1,700.
http://justice4workerssingapore.blo...6/long-interview-ong-ye-kung-one-who-got.html
TODAY, Mr Ong finds his stride in union work. As the executive secretary of the National Transport Workers' Union, he says the natural working language and dialect during meetings is Mandarin and Hokkien. 'I realised that I felt very at home. It's like talking to my father and uncles,' he says.
He has spent the past few months negotiating for a pay hike for bus drivers and making sure the Transport Ministry's funding to public transport operators got passed down to drivers. Wage ceilings, which were not raised for 13 years, inched up from $1,560 to $1,700.
http://justice4workerssingapore.blo...6/long-interview-ong-ye-kung-one-who-got.html
