October 2009 Issue
Quotable Quotes:
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Anonymous
In This issue:
UTES Highlights
SingTel-UTES NDOC 2009
Union Visit by Mr Heng Chee How
UTES Bursary Award 2009
SingPost Best Employee Award 2009
Postman Commended for His Honesty
UTES Deepavali Night 2009
In Every issue:
Perks and Promotions
UTES Benefit Updates
Contact Details
By Ivy Ng
UTES Highlights
SingTel-UTES NDOC 2009
To celebrate our nation’s 44th birthday, UTES jointly organized National Day Observance Ceremony with SingTel this year. This event was held on 17 August 2009 at Comcentre Theatrette. The Guest-of-Honour for the ceremony was Mr Masagos Zulkifli Bin Masagos Mohamad, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Home Affairs. The ceremony was also graced by Mr Allen Lew, CEO Singapore, SingTel.
In his opening address, Mr Masagos shared that his sister and himself were beneficiaries of UTES Bursary Award, “…I urged my sister to come out together with me to tell our stories so that parents and employees will know that there is always help from the union for their children to continue to excel in their studies.”
During the ceremony, Mr Logarajah s/o J K Sabapathy, General Secretary of UTES, read out the National Day Message from NTUC Secretary-General, Mr Lim Swee Say. Next, Mr Mohammad Emran Bin Hamid, UTES Executive Councilor, lead union and management in reciting the National Pledge in unison. The ceremony ended in a high note with all singing “Stand up for Singapore”.
SingTel and UTES are honored to organize this NDOC together.
Union and SingTel Management at NDOC 2009 Exchange of Certificate of Participation between Mr Roger Tan, President of UTES and Mr Allen Lew, CEO Singapore, SingTel
Reading of National Day Message by Mr Logarajah Address by Guest of Honour, Mr Masagos Zulkifli s/o J K Sabapathy, General Secretary, UTES Bin Masagos Mohamad SingTel-UTES NDOC 2009
Union Visit by Mr Heng Chee How
As part of NTUC’s ongoing dialogue with the affiliates, Mr Heng Chee How, Deputy Secretary-General, NTUC visited UTES on 25 August 2009. During the visit, Mr Heng shared with UTES Executive Council the overall economic situation and was updated on what is happening on the ground. The issues discussed are cost cutting measures during the economic downturn, 10% salary reduction at the age of 60 years old, and employability of older workers.
Visit of Mr Heng Chee How to UTES
UTES Bursary Award 2009
As part of the Union’s continuing efforts to assist members in the education needs of their children, UTES once again offers bursary awards to schooling children of our members. The bursary awards are open to members of UTES, as well as employees in SingTel and SingPost who require financial assistance to meet the education needs of their children. The ceremony was held on 10 October 2009, Saturday at NTUC Auditorium. The Guest of Honor was Mr Wilson Tan, Group CEO of SingPost.
UTES Bursary Awards has been running for its 24th year since it started in 1985. Through the awards, hundreds of our members’ children have benefited every year. UTES, together with SingTel and SingPost continued to administer the bursary awards through a joint application and selection process in 2009. This would be the seventh year that the bursary awards are jointly organised with SingTel and a sixth year with SingPost.
UTES General Secretary, Mr Logarajah s/o J K Sabapathy, in his opening address mentioned that members should not take for granted that since they obtain the bursary award this year that they will automatically qualify for next year. Circumstances can change and they may not be the “needy” one next year.
For the year 2009, the total award value is $129,900, with $60,000 contributed by SingPost, $39,900 contributed by UTES and $30,000 contributed by SingTel. There is an increase of $6,900 given out this year compared to last year.
UTES would like to like to extend our congratulations to all recipients of the Bursary Awards.
UTES Bursary Recipients at the Presentation Ceremony
Opening address by Mr Logarajah s/o J K Guest of Honour, Mr Wilson Tan, Group CEO of SingPost Sabapathy, GS of UTES (3rd from left)
SingPost Best Employee Award 2009
The annual SingPost Best Employee of the Year cum Commendation/WOW Award Ceremony was held on 6 October 2009 at Singapore Post Centre. The event was graced by Mr Wilson Tan, Group Chief Executive Officer of SingPost and Mr Roger Tan, President of UTES.
A total of 425 SingPost staff was presented awards in recognition of their performance. Besides the Best Employee of the Year awards, SingPost also gave out commendation awards ranging from Bronze to Gold, depending on the number of compliments received from customers.
UTES would like to convey our heartfelt congratulations to the awardees.
Postman of the Year Mr Roger Tan, President of UTES, with SingPost Management and the awardees
Postman Commended for His Honesty
SingPost Postman and UTES Member, Mr Anuar Bin Ahmad, has been commended by Mr Wilson Tan, Goup Chief Executive Officer of SingPost, for his honesty. In August this year, he found a bag containing cash at the SAM machine at Suntec Post Office. Anuar promptly reported the incident and hand over the bag to the manager at Suntec Post Office. He humbly shared that he just wanted to set a good example and wanted to return the cash so that the owner will be happy.
UTES is proud to have a member like Mr Anuar Bin Ahmad!
UTES Deepavali Night 2009
UTES is celebrating the festive at UTES Deepavali Night 2009.
We would like to call all members to come join us in the celebration. Ladies, come dress in beautiful Indian Ethnic Costume and be crowned UTES Deepavali Queen. The Deepavali Queen and two Princesses will walk away with attractive prizes.
Call and fax in your registration form today to reserve your tickets today. We hope to see you there!
Event : UTES DEEPAVALI NITE ‘09 Date: 14 November 2009 Venue: The Grassroots Club 190 , Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 , Singapore 568046 Time: 7.00pm Tickets: $30.00 per person Dress code: Indian Ethnic For tickets , Please contact : Karthi at 63371122 ext 39 / [email protected] Careen 63371122 ext 26 / [email protected]
Perks & Promotions
UTES Chalet
LinkPoints Promotion
For more information kindly visit www.ntuc.org.sg
Earn double LinkPoints!
Enjoy Double LinkPoints at your favourite merchants!
TUESDAY Enjoy double LinkPoints at John Little! Every $1 spent on Tuesday = 4 LinkPoints (NTUC Members) = 2 LinkPoints (Others)
WEDNESDAY Enjoy double LinkPoints at EC House! Every $1 spent on Wednesday = 4 LinkPoints
THURSDAY U Members enjoy double LinkPoints at Unity! Every $1 spent = 6 LinkPoints (NTUC Members)
For more information kindly visit www.ntuc.org.sg
UTES Benefits Updates
For the month of September 2009, the following membership benefits were given out to assist members:-
Type of Membership Benefit Amount ($) Benevolent Grant 900.00 Get Well Hamper 770.40 Hospitalization Reimbursement 1,695.00 Medical Assistance 2,000.00 NTUC Gift 5,750.00 SLF Hardship Grant 0.00 Total 11,115.40
For more information on membership benefits, please visit http://www.utes.org.sg/memb_elig_bene.htm
Submission of Welfare Benefits Scheme Claim
Kindly take note that hospitalization reimbursement and medical assistance claims are to be submitted not later than 30 days from the qualifying event together with supporting documents.
For enquiries, please call the Finance Department at 63371122.
Notice – General Purpose Loan
With reference to the Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Act 2008, all non-credit co- operative are not allowed to offer financial services. As such, UTES Multi-Purpose Co- operative Society Ltd, which is a non-credit Co-operative, will not be able to accept application for General Purpose Loan with effect 1 October 2009 until further notice.
CONVERT YOUR NTUC GENERAL BRANCH TO UTES MEMBERSHIP NOW!
If you have recently joined SingTel, SingPost, NCS, NCS CE, Radiance Communications, G3 Worldwide ASPAC or any of SingTel’s subsidiaries and are already an existing NTUC Card Holder, make the conversion to become a UTES member now! By being a member of the UTES family, you will enjoy benefits that are exclusively for UTES members besides the benefits provided by NTUC.
For more details, please visit http://www.utes.org.sg/memb_elig.htm or speak to our friendly staff @ 6337 1122.
CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS OR CONTACT NUMBER?
Update UTES on any changes of the above by visiting http://www.utes.org.sg/change_add.php
Contact Details
UTES Contacts
To provide any feedback or make enquiry, please visit http://www.utes.org.sg/contact.htm
Membership - Ms Karthi D/O Chanthiran 6337 1122 x 39 / [email protected] - Ms Nooraini Samat 6337 1122 x 33 / [email protected]
IR Matters - Ms Careen Ng 6337 1122 x 26 / [email protected] - Ms Ivy Ng 6337 1122 x 16 / [email protected] - Ms Linda Ong 6337 1122 X 17 / [email protected]
Other Useful Numbers
APIC Admin Hotline - 62803932
HR Medical Enquiry - 6838 3932 (SingTel) - 6845 6577 (SingPost) - 6556 5442 (NCS CE)