First of all, Happy New Year to everyone in the Labour Movement.
Many new things happened last year. At the NTUC level, the Labour Movement saw a new Secretary-General and a new Deputy Secretary-General with Ng Chee Meng and Koh Poh Koon coming in.
Retrenchment numbers in Singapore went down, and total employment moved up.
As we wrap up 2018 and welcome the new year, here’s a peek into the top things we should all keeping a lookout for in 2019. (Disclaimer: Dates are tentative and subject to change)
Back for a second year, the FJST Forum will seek to take proactive measures and pre-emptive steps to prepare workers to become Worker 4.0.
In what has become an annual tradition, the Labour Movement along with the Prime Minister will be appreciating our workers who continue to work on public holidays to keep the nation going. We’ll let you know soon enough where they’ll be going this year.
The announcements in 2018 were plenty – grants, new training initiatives, infrastructure spending, and the SG Bonus, among others. So what’s in store for the Budget in 2019? Highlights of it will be delivered directly to your inbox on our regular EDM.
On 8 March every year, women around the world are celebrated. NTUC will be organising a women leadership symposium to celebrate the progress of women in Singapore and express its commitment to provide further support to women at the workplaces.
May Day is celebrated by honouring workers in Singapore. Beyond the occasion, the Labour Movement has been working hard to prepare workers to be Worker 4.0. Various events like the May Day Rally, May Day Awards and the May Day Fiesta will take centre stage in celebration of May Day this year, so look out for these!
The council was set up in 1972, at a time when Singapore was facing rapid industrialisation. With that growth, more and more workers were expecting a rise in their wages.
However, there were concerns that this expectation could potentially lead to serious industrial disputes, which would then affect the economic progress of Singapore.
Since it was established, the NWC has been formulating wage guidelines annually that are in line with long-term economic growth.
Celebrate Singapore’s birthday with the Labour Movement at this year’s National Day Observance Ceremony. It’s the perfect time to renew and strengthen the camaraderie shared among those in the Labour Movement.
Four years have passed in a blink of an eye as the Labour Movement holds yet another National Delegates’ Conference.
Like the previous conferences, all NTUC-affiliated unions will congregate to elect a new NTUC Central Committee and chart the way forward for the next four years.
“To know our future, we must know our past,” said then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the NTUC Modernization Seminar on 16 November 1969.
Journey with us through the past 50 years as we learn from our past, to decide the future of the Labour Movement at the NDC.
