Inside scoop on Lee family and Associates – Fact or Fiction?

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If the dhanabalan incident is true then I kinda understand why pinko slap him. Dun bring in family ma...
 
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pattanispirit said:
i keen to know about what happen to Lim Chee Onn ? actually, i tot LKY intend groom him take as PM and not GCT.

he seems to be more popular candidate than GCT, with lots of media exposure.

then, suddenly, he left politics in '92 when GCT become PM in '90 and joined Keppel.
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In post-ww2 Singapore, the trade unions were vehicles, used by the anti-British colonist activists (communists and non-communists alike), to recruit manpower and resources in their fight against the British colonial powers. Effectively as they were in providing the means for activists to overthrow the British colonial government, the trade unions potentially represent a fifth column to the then newly independent government, given the urgent need to the convince foreign companies to invest in Singapore, who traditionally dislike a strong labour union movement.

Fortunately for PAP, Devan Nair, a respected figure in the trade union circle, was convinced to return back to Singapore. Once back, Devan Nair has laid the groundwork for the close relationship between the trade union and the government in his tenure as the secretary general of NUTC, steering it the trade unions toward an prosperity road, whereby they were to forever be a very important key political ally to the Singaporean government and the PAP in securing political power in Singapore, in exchange for tactical support and endorsement of programs and legislation guaranteeing worker rights. In fact, this is offically known as the " tripartite system".

In the aftermath of Devan Nair election as president and the conviction of Phey Yew Kok for corruption, Lim Chee Onn, the protégé of LKY back then, was pushed to the top seat of NTUC in 1980. To bring NTUC further under the influence of the government, Lim was appointed as the minister with portfolio in the same year. The same year also saw the formation of the NTUC-PAP liaison committee. 4 seats of the committee was held by GCT, OTC, Dhanabalan and Dr Ahmad Mattar while the rest was held by close allies of Devan Nair.

With LKY’s blessing, Lim Chee Onn set out to implement changes to the trade unions in Singapore. However, Lim action’s during that period only introduced friction between the trade unions in Singapore and NTUC.

Recognizing that the Singapore economy would soon transit to one that of a knowledge based, Lim proposed programs aiming to increase the education level and technical knowhow of the average worker. In view of that, Lim recruited large number of highly educated scholars and technocrats to the executive levels in NUTC, to help him research and formulate the relevant policies. Very soon, the same group of scholars and technocrats were elevated to leadership position within NTUC.

Older grassroots union leaders, who climb the ranks during Devan Nair’s tenure, found themselves increasingly excluded from decisions in the new NTUC leadership. In a very short time the older leaders came to resent the new leadership, whom they see them as de facto appointed government technocrats whom most have little experience of the grassroots labor movement.

The downfall of Lim started when Lim went ahead with introducing the concept of union house in Singapore. For the uninitiated, union houses, as known as company or in-house union, refers to a worker organization dominated or influenced by an employer. Instead of let say a metal worker union, we would have unions like tah ah beng metal pte ltd union, lee mok sheng copper pte ltd union, etc.

Such a union model would weaken the trade union power as there would not be any basis for the trade union to bargain for the right of the workers, short of the trade union taking over the ownership of the said companies. Opposition to these were so rife that, in an incident, the United Workers of Petroleum Industry (UWPI) and NTUC Triennal Delegates' Conference publicly announced opposition to the government's attempts to make house unions the norm, to the political chagrin of Lee Kuan Yew.

The proclamation that the "PAP and the NTUC came from the same mother – the struggle with the communists and the colonialists," by Lim Chee Onn, in a 1982 speech, did little to resolve the issue. By early 1983, the relations between the unions and the government was so strained that Lee Kuan Yew, that Lim, though he had very high expectations of, not "progressing well" in the "process of meshing in the scholars and the professionals with the rank-and-file union leaders" in NTUC, causing "increasing disquiet" among the grassroots union leaders. Thus, in an open letter to Lim, Lim learnt that he would have to leave the NTUC to "take charge of a Government ministry". Lim Chee Onn was then replaced by Ong Teng Cheong as Secretary General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).
 
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the information TS published was already available on the net for over 5 years. i remember reading them a few years ago
 
grimnar

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I dunno fact or fiction but after reading suddenly wanna sleep riaos

Sent from GAGT y u no road fasiter? using GAGT
 
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cannot comment yet,too WOT,need to slowly read when free

but even if i never read,also will not vote pap
 
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