NTUC Management Restructuring

NTUC Chief Lim Boon Heng has urged the wariness of companies undergoing restructuring to clutch union leadership into confidence, so that the accepted concerns of workers tidy sum be addressed in good time. Citing the restructuring of the Public Utilities Board as an example, he utter the exercise was carried bulge out stillly because of the close cooperation between the centering and the union. Speaking at the first tercentennial delegates conference of the Union of Power and botch Employees (UPAGE), Mr Lim said that companies responded to ch solelyenges in various ways some through restructuring to meet impudent market demands, and others through mergers.For wokers, these changes can be unsettling, and restructuring sometimes leads to retrenchments. But in the sequel of capital of Singapore Powers restructuring, the NTUC Chief noted that the taphouse management had taken the companys union leaders into confidence even before the watchword was make public it showed t hat openess between management and union was the better policy. When management be open with the union leaders, the legitimate concerns of workers can be addressed, leading to a smooth transition, Mr Lim said. Unfortunately for us, there are many management that adopt a distinguishable approach, informing the union only at the last moment, giving union leaders little time to respond and no time to address workers concerns. Mr Lim also denote that the unions present general repository, Nithinandhan, would now croak its executive secretary, so that he could invent workers from in all unions formed under Singapore Power or its subsidiary companies. We made some changes to our constitution handing the powers to the executive secretary to deal with all collective agreements, and to transact on behalf of major grievances with management and be the main person corresponding with all employers and external agencies and work out policies for all branches on industrial relations, Mr N ithinandhan said. He said the unions relations with the management had been excellent and plans were current for joint committees on training and piece of work environment to better look into the involve of workers.