Striving For

June 2014

Striving for

SUCCESS by Florina Oo

Participants with Francis Lee (Deputy Director, PME Unit), Teo Yock Ngee (MED Organising Resource Centre Advisor) and Edwin Lye (Vice-Chairman, NTUC Membership Committee and General Secretary, STU)

Towards the end of the workshop, with the essential knowledge, competent As Singapore’s participants gained new perspectives and and proﬁcient to strengthen a union’s workforce continues to ideas on recruitment and membership membership. evolve, so does the issues through a dialogue session with Labour Movement and several key Labour Movement individuals. Are you also keen to take part in the next its committee. workshop on date ? Please contact Ms The ultimate result was to ensure the Rena Lee at 6213 8049 or email With a growing pool of Professionals, participants become empowered [email protected] for more information. Managers and Executives (PMEs), the U Membership Breakthrough Workshop was organized to look into strengthening It’s a good learning opportunity the outreach to members. for young and old!

Some 26 participants from ﬁve unions Sister Illi Suraya Binte Mohd Razali, came together to brainstorm on better Assistant Secretary (Second from left) ways to reach out to PMEs – namely HDBSU, SMOU, PUBEU, UPAGE and SMMWU.

At the one-day workshop, participants got I ﬁnd the lesson useful. to understand the importance of union Besides learning the value propositions membership and also acquire the basic It was a good workshop. The for PMEs, we also get to role play and knowledge of PMEs coverage and discuss on what are the ways to help representation. They were also message delivered was clear and simple. We learnt new methods on members and solve problems. It is introduced to the concept of 3Rs: strongly recommended for all delegates. Recruitment, Retention and Relationship how to recruit members from Building. During the session, participants other unions’ best practices. had the opportunity to role play and act Brother Selvarajan s/o Muniandy, out different possible scenarios they Brother Rajan s/o Thanapal, Committee Member (Third from left) could encounter during their outreach. Secretary (First from left)

1 LABOUR MOVEMENT TODAYfacts and figures TODAY’S MEMBERSHIP OB MEMBERSHIP FIGURES �,��,�� ,�� Mar �� ,�� ,�� ,�� ,�� Apr �� ,�� ,�� ,�� May �� ,�� Projected May ��,�� OB ROADSHOWS Apr - May �� MAY SIGN-UPS Union Location Recruitment AREU Marina Bay Sands 427 Resorts World Sentosa OB AUPE Singapore Sports Council 44 AUSBE Energy Market Authority 44 �,�� GB Health Science Authority TOTAL: ��,�� National Library Board �,�� BATU Cleaning Express 47 Nippecraft Semb Waste HSEU Changi General Hospital 473 John Hopkins National University Hospital Singapore General Hospital UNIONISED COMPANIES Thye Hua Kwan Hospital Apr - May �� Tan Tock Seng Hospital MIWU Epson 153 BATU ETLA Limited Hitachi Elevator Asia Bernice Management Pte Ltd Leica Instruments (Singapore) Cheong Yuen Services Makino Asia NOK Chiang Kiong Maintenance Pte Ltd Shimano V8 Environmental Pte Ltd NTWU ComfortDelgro Braddell 215 ComfortDelgro SMRT Kim Chuan Depot Comfort Transportation FDAWU Jurong Port C M M Marketing Management Pte Ltd One Marina Boulevard – SSTA Engagement SMRT Bishan Depot SMRT Sengkang Depot NTWU SATSWU SATS Inflight Catering Centre 2 19 Ontrans Pte Ltd SCTU Plaza Singapura GV Plaza 27 National Institute of Education SISEU Kian Ho Bearings 92 MIWU Mi World Fong’s Engineering and Manufacturing Pte Ltd Pacific International Lines Starhub Mauser Singapore Pte Ltd Storhub Tien Wah Press UWEEI Turbine Overhaul Services Wingtai Outlets (Bugis Junction, ION, Plaza Singapura, Raffles City) NSC Singapore Pte Ltd SMEEU PPL Shipyard 5 SMOU Maritime Academy 5 SISEU SPWU PSA Brani Residence 40 SSSU SPRING Singapore 14 Singapore Jamco Services Pte Ltd USE King’s Security and Stamford Security Agencies 55 Roving Recruitment (Shopping Malls in Singapore) UWEEI SSMC 360 SMEEU REC Solar BW Offshore Singapore Pte Ltd

2 feature story NTWU DOING MORE FOR MEMBERS

S.H.I.N.E. MEMBERS OVERSEAS APPRECIATION TRIP NTWU rolled out its very own SHINE Club in 2013. SHARING EXPERIENCES Group photo with Member of NTWU Council of Advisors Seng Han Thong, HAVING AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE NTWU Executive Secretary Ong Chin Ang, NTWU General Secretary Fang Chin Poh, NTWU General Treasurer Joseph Nagarajan, NTUC Membership Director INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION Vivek Kumar and SSTA Chairman Wong Ann Lin NETWOKRING ENGAGING SENIOR MEMBERS SSTA ENGAGEMENT DAY Senior members who are 55 years old Launching of “SAFE-DRIVING CAMPAIGN” for private bus drivers and above will be in this SHINE Club, which has a strength of about 3,873 Through this campaign, SSTA members On 19th April 2014, NTWU and the members. In order to have a better Singapore School Transport are encouraged to undergo defensive engagement with the senior members, Association (SSTA), under the NTUC U driving courses which help develop SHINE Club will be organising various Associate Programme, co-organised correct attitudes and impart essential activities that are suitable for them so as the SSTA Engagement Day to forge a knowledge that will extend the to keep them active and stay connected stronger bond with its Associate participant’s skill in dealing with other to the union. Partner. There was a great turn-up of road users and potentially hazardous 143 SSTA members. situations. NTWU, together with SSTA, This year, in line with the nation’s have collaborated with insurance recognition of its pioneer generation, In order to raise safety awareness companies like NTUC Income and Tenet SHINE Club awarded some of its senior amongst private bus drivers, and to Sompo to give a $50 rebate for policy members with an overseas appreciation cultivate the importance of being a renewal when a driver completes the trip to Chiang Mai on 17th-20th May. responsible road user and in turn course. There were a total of 24 senior boosting service quality of these bus members, joined by their spouses, and drivers, the ‘Safe-Driving Campaign’, Via this engagement day and the launch the Executive Secretary of NTWU, organised by NTWU, NTUC and SSTA of the campaign, the relationship Brother Ong Chin Ang. was launched. between NTWU and SSTA has been strengthened. And from here, the union These senior members are 62 years old hopes to continue engaging its associate and above, and have at least 40 years of members and improving their lives. union membership. They have been with NTWU through its ups and downs, and some had contributed greatly to NTWU by serving as a union leader. As such, The growth of union membership is important. NTWU wants to be a union which is there It strengthens the union nancially and structurally. for its members through all walks of their It allows the union to serve members in more lives, and to appreciate the commitment ways, like enhancing workers’ employment and and loyalty of its members. employability, strengthening social support for During the trip, the senior members were the less privileged union members and more. brought to various places of interest such as the Mae Kajan Hot Spring to unwind, NTWU recognises our pioneer generation of and the elephant camp. The senior leaders and members, who have supported us members had enjoyed themselves through our ups and downs, with various thoroughly and were heartened by activities organised specially for them. NTWU’s efforts in planning this trip for them. They were also looking forward to - NTWU General Treasurer and more activities organized for the SHINE Membership Subcommittee Chairman, Joseph Nagarajan Club members.

3 QUIZ TO WIN

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What is the name of the club that NTWU has set up to engage their senior members? (a) SHINEY (b) SHINE (c) SHONE

HINT: Answer can be found on page 3 Email your Answer, Full Name, NRIC, Home Address and Contact No. to [email protected] for a chance to win. Please title your email as ‘Quiz to Win’. Contest ends on 31 July 2014. * Shaw Theatres premiere Movie Voucher is honoured at Shaw Theatres premiere only. Visit www.shaw.sg/premiere for more details. This contest is open to exco members, delegates and branch ofﬁcials only. Other terms and conditions apply.

2014 ISSUE It is an informative FEB WINNERS newsletter that provides good learning points in promoting membership. Well done! MED ORC eNewsletter updated us with the latest Tay Peck Kiang, HDBSU (right) information and other with Rena Lee, MED ORC Account Manager unions membership news. Labour Movement Today is Doris Yeo Lay Hon, UWEEI the first article that I will zoom in as I want to know the membership figures of LM ! Next, will be the attractive Membership Privileges for The magazine has a our union members. The wide array of eNewsletter has let many information and provides union leaders get updates on good entertainment the latest happenings. value and knowledge. It is easy to read and also Sung Ming Yin, AUPE (left) allows readers to have with Leung Kah Yee, MED ORC Account Manager many good takeaways.

Ling Ngee Hua, BATU (right) with Elangovan, MED ORC Account Manager Lucky Winner Ramanathan s/o Doraisamy from UWEEI was unable to attend the prize presentation. Answer for Feb 2014 Issue: True

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