Note from transferring agency: The following file has been declassified. MOM has checked the file, and find that the file does not contain any explicit record that MOM’s powers under Part XII of the Employment Act have been invoked in obtaining the information. As such, the bar from publication or disclosure under section 102 of the Employment Act does not apply.
This file has content on MOL’s dealing with NTUC between 1980 and 1984. These include:
• NTUC’s Central Committee internal regulations and elections (Pg. 230)
• Documents on the amalgamation of five Public Sector Daily Rated Unions into one union – their internal challenges, reconciling records of the different union’s assets, and the expired terms of office of some of the union officials affecting the amalgamation (Pg. 170),
• Establishment of the NTUC Industrial Workers’ Education and Training Fund (NTUC IWETF) (Pg. 174)
• Instructions from NTUC HQ to the individual NTUC affiliated unions to amend their constitutions to be in line with the then recently amended Trades Union Act – including that the purpose of the union is to achieve the “raising of productivity for the benefits of members, their employers and the Singapore economy”. (Pg. 135)
• Press articles on NTUC was pushing for house unions (Pg. 38), NTUC affiliated unions receiving office space at the SLF building at almost half-price (Pg. 25); and Ong Teng Cheong’s view that Managers should be allowed to join unions (Pg. 20).
• Approval for Trade unions to organise Trade Fairs. (Pg. 12 & 14)
• Renaming of the NTUC’s Industrial Affairs Council (IAC) as the Industrial Relations Committee (IRC) to reduce confusion over the terms.
Dec 1980 - Feb 1984
ML 1664
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