NTUC Management Restructuring

NTUC Chief Lim Boon Heng has urged the management of companies at a lower placegoing restructuring to take league leaders into confidence, so that the legitimate concerns of workers can be addressed in easily epoch. Citing the restructuring of the Public Utilities Board as an example, he said the exercise was carried forbidden unruffledly because of the close cooperation between the management and the union. Speaking at the frontmost triennial delegates conference of the Union of Power and Gas Employees (UPAGE), Mr Lim said that companies responded to ch all toldenges in various ways some through restructuring to meet new market demands, and others through mergers.For wokers, these changes can be unsettling, and restructuring sometimes leads to retrenchments. But in the slipperiness of Singapore Powers restructuring, the NTUC Chief noted that the PUB management had taken the companys union leaders into confidence even before the news was made man it showed that frankess b etween management and union was the better policy. When management are 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 different approach, informing the union only at the last moment, large union leaders little time to respond and no time to address workers concerns. Mr Lim also announced that the unions present general secretary, Nithinandhan, would now nonplus its executive secretary, so that he could represent workers from all unions formed under Singapore Power or its subsidiary companies. We made some changes to our typography handing the powers to the executive secretary to deal with all collective agreements, and to negotiate 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 Nithinandhan said. He said the unions relations with the management had been excellent and plans were underway for joint committees on training and workplace environment to better look into the needs of workers.