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THE SINGAPORE MCI (P) 097/12/2018
a newsletter of the
singapore port workers union
SEPT-DEC 2018
www.spwu.org.sg
SPWU CHARTS
COURSE AHEAD
CONTENTS
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SPWU GEARS UP AT NEW COLLECTIVE SPWU YOUNG
13TH GCD AGREEMENTS WITH SEEDLING &
PSA AND PSAM ACHIEVERS AWARD
2018
TRANSPORT WORKERS BUILDING
POWER AT ITF 44TH CONGRESS IN
SINGAPORE
F or the first time in 122 years, the
International Transport Workers
Federation (ITF) held its Congress in
Southeast Asia. A record number of
some 2,400 participants, representing
over 600 unions from 140 countries
descended in Suntec City, Singapore
for the impacting 44th Congress
which kicked off on 14 October 2018.
The warm hospitality of the host
unions – Singapore Port Workers'
Union (SPWU), National Transport
Workers’ Union (NTWU), Port
Officers' Union (POU), Singapore
Maritime Officers' Union (SMOU) and
Singapore Organisation of Seamen
(SOS), wowed the ITF affiliates.
SPWU was among the five unions,
which made up the Singapore National
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and assisted the ITF to
bring the Congress to a roaring success.
The ITF’s decision-making event, gave a strong collective
voice to the more than 19 million transport workers. During
the Congress, watershed motions were passed and new
leaders were elected to chart the course for transport
workers for the next five years. The Congress hit home a
strong message that transport workers are indeed building
power.
In his opening address as the Guest-of-Honour at the ITF
Congress, NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng gave
the assurance that the Singapore Labour Movement would
ensure that its workers are prepared for technological
changes. “We want to help transform our workers into
Worker 4.0 who are relevant, and can also be plugged into
redesigned or new jobs that are created.”
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SPWU GEARS UP AT 13TH GENERAL
CONVENTION OF DELEGATES
H ot on the heels after a rousing
conclusion to ITF Congress, to
build power, SPWU held its 13th
General Convention of Delegates
(GCD) at the Holiday Inn Singapore
on 25 October 2018.
A new group of leaders was given the
mandate to lead SPWU for the next four
years. 96 delegates and branch officials, among them were for automation and enablers of the industry, SPWU need
39 newly elected leaders. 17 of the newly elected leaders to promote and support tripartism, value the importance
were below the age of 35, signalling a healthy inclusion of of labour-management relations, and champion workers’
“young” blood willing to represent members’ interest. training. In that way, we can achieve the 3 Wins – economy,
business and workers.
Pleased that he was able to join SPWU at their GCD
2018, NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng said, The convention highlights included a tribute honour to long
“What you’re going to do today at your 13th General service award recipients who have served SPWU for more
Delegate Convention is significant – to have a good than 10 years.
review of your achievements for the last four years,
but more importantly, to chart the way forward for After two months of election preparation and voting, the
the next four years, so that in substance and form, new Executive Council was unveiled. Congratulations to
we can do better than any competitors in our midst.” the new delegates who have been successfully elected
from PSA Corporation, PSA Marine and Singaport
In order to chart the way forward, SPWU leaders were Cleanseas branch.
motivated to “remember the bigger picture”. To gear up
Brother Peter Kong from PSA PPT3, became more Serving his first term as ExCo and delegate, brother
active with the union in the last five years. Seeing Tan Sheng Hong, Container Handling Specialist,
the need to represent workers in yard crane section, ST1 Resource & Staff Support, who has only been
he boldly stepped up to the role. a SPWU member for 4 years, is
“As a leader, I recognise that a all excited about being given the
lot of sacrifice is needed in terms honour to represent the voices
of time to participate in union of fellow workers. He hopes to
activities, and in being really in learn the ropes from seniors, as
touch with the ground and being he navigates through the role as
connected to members to help a union leader.
resolve problems. I will do my
best to serve.”
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SPWU Advisors
Heng Swee Keat Ang Wei Neng Ong Chin Ang Jessie Yeo Hong Cheng
Executive Secretary
Trustees
Ong Kuan Pheng Lam Yuen Shin Rose Tan Ah Lian Joseph Wang Kay Huat Khoo Woon Kung
(wef 1 Jan 2019) Deputy Executive Secretary
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25 26 27 28 29 30
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Port Workers Union Delegates for the term 2018 to 2022
ST 1 RESOURCE & STAFF SUPPORT 12. Lee Ming Hao Deric 25. Ghazali Bin Sayuti
OS/SOS 13. Colin Peh Ren Xing 26. N Subramaniam
1. Lim Chee Kiang 14. Lim Chung Wei 27. Teo Chin Siong
(Third Vice-President) 15. Mohammad Sufian Bin Asli 28. Toh Chin Lee
29. Balakrishnan Ramaraj
ST 1 RESOURCE & STAFF SUPPORT ST 2 RESOURCE 1
CHS/SCHS LASHING ST 1 OPS PLANG & LOG SVCS
2. Oh Tze Chern Evan 16. Lee Ping Yuan 30. Kiang Young Chow
(Secretary to ExCo) (Secretary to ExCo)
3. Mohammad Amin Bin Mohd Noor ST 2 RESOURCE 2
4. Heng Swee Boon OS/SOS ST 2 STOWAGE PLNG
5. Tan Sheng Hong 17. Mohammed Zaid s/o Samsudin 31. Karamjit Singh s/o Harbans Singh
(ExCo Member)
ST 2 RESOURCE 2 REEFER
ST 1 RESOURCE & STAFF SUPPORT CHS/SCHS ST1 OPS /ST2 YOPD /AYOPD
LASHING 18. Nazri Bin Nasir 32. Azhar Bin Abdul Aziz
6. Taufan Bin Rayis Mochamad (ExCo Member)
7. Shaharrudin Bin Yusef ST 1 OPS CTRL & EXECUTION
OS/SOS PPT 1
ST 2 RESOURCE 1 19. Kenny Ng Hoe Tiong OS/SOS
OS/SOS (First Deputy General Secretary) 33. Thangamani s/o Sinniah
8. Suhaimi Bin Badar Bajarai 20. Pannerchilvam s/o Muthu (Second Assistant General Secretary)
(First Vice-President)
ST 1 OPS CTRL & EXECUTION PPT1
ST 2 RESOURCE 1 CES/SCES CES/SCES/RES
CHS/SCHS 21. Tan Teng Hong 34. Low Chow Wah
9. T Ganeshwaran (General Treasurer) (First Assistant General Secretary)
(ExCo Member) 22. Phua Tiong Koon 35. Syed Mohamed Ali Bin Syed Hassan
10. Low Kar Siong (Second Assistant General Treasurer) 36. Chua Leong Kean
(ExCo Member) 23. Ang Eng Hwee
11. Tan Wei Jian Philip 24. Chew Peng Chuang
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19 20 21 22 23 24
31 32 33 34 35 36
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37 38 39 40 41 42
49 50 51 52 53 54
61 62 63 64 65 66
73 74 75 76 77 78
85 86 87 88 89 90
92 93 94 95 96
PPT2 PPT 3 PPT6
CES/SCES CES/SCES 59. R Pannirselvam
37. Mohamed Najib Bin Mohamed Yacob 47. Jng Cheng Teck 60. See Joon Hong
38. Ho See Min 48. Laun Thian Chai (ExCo Member)
39. Yap Sem Khian 49. Peter Kong Tze Yuan 61. Jeffrey Chia Wee Keong
40. JP Sunil (ExCo Member)
41. S Selvarajan 50. Shahriffudin Jupri AYOPD
42. Mahfud Bin Jurami 51. Abdul Kareem Jahaber Ali OS/SOS
(ExCo Member) 52. Tang Kah Fai 62. S Sangaran
43. Abdul Rahman Bin Othman 53. Ho Hon Leng 63. Tan Chai Ghim Ryan
44. Tan Joo Hwee
45. Tan Hock Kian PPT4 AYOPD
54. Kalaiarasen s/o Vellanthurai RES/CES/SCES
PPT 3 55. Soh Eng Khoon 64. Raghavan Ravichandran
OS/SOS (Secretary to ExCo) 65. Bernard Lean Chong Meng
46. G Ramatas (ExCo Member)
(Secretary to ExCo) PPT5 66. Simon Koon Lai Huat
56. Haja Maidin Bin A P Peer Mohamed
(Secretary to ExCo) ST1 QUAY CRANE & YARD CRANE
57. Lee Yuan Chin ENGINEERING
58. Teo Choon Chye (Zhang Juncai) 67. Joshua Nathaniel Norsen
68. Ang Guang Sheng, Andy
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Tanjong Pagar Complex
43 44 45 46 47 48
55 56 57 58 59 60
67 68 69 70 71 72
79 80 81 82 83 84
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Alfred Tan Kheng Hua Stephanie Choo Jia Min Ken Chan Keng Khien Henry Tan Chun Meng
(Snr Industrial (Industrial Relations (Internal Auditor) (Internal Auditor)
Relations Officer) Officer)
ST 2 QUAY CRANE & YARD CRANE ST 1HRS/ST 2HRS/SHSSD-HUB TOBD
ENGINEERING 77. Choo Seng Huat 84. Liao Renxi
69. Ibrahim s/o Peri
(First Assistant General Treasurer) MPT SHD
70. Ryan Erwin Bin Mawi 78. Ahmad Hadzwan Lee Bin Muhammad Aiman 85. Nor Hamizan Bin Husin
(ExCo Member)
ST1 MOBILE EQUIPMENT PSA MARINE DELEGATES
71. Danny Phua Cheow Huat EMED 86. Amir Hamzah Bin Hasan
(President) 79. S M Suwandi Bin Salamat (Secretary to ExCo)
87. Abdul Razak Bin Mohd Yassin
ST2 MOBILE EQUIPMENT 1 EEDD (Secretary to ExCo)
72. Mohamad Latiff Bin Md Arapi 80. Shahidallah Bin Ismail 88. Boologanathan Kumareswaran
ST2 MOBILE EQUIPMENT 2 ECD/IORD PSA MARINE BRANCH OFFICIALS
73. Fadhlullah Bin Abdul Rahman 81. Ang Chew Leng 89. Muhammad Zaki Bin Sutri
(Secretary to ExCo) 90. Mohammad Fadzil Bin Selamat
INFOCOMM – 91. Muhammad Faizal Bin Samsudin
ST1 SERVICE RECOVERY CPSD/ICTDO/ITIOD/SSMD/TAMSD 92. Azman Bin Ahmad
74. Malik Timboel Manik 82. G Samarasam 93. Mohamed Sulaiman Bin Abdul Rahim
(Second Vice-President)
FINANCE, PSAU & PSAI – CLEANSEAS DELEGATE
PPT 1 & PPT2 ENGINEERING FAD/BFSD/ASD/CD/PSAU/PSAI 94. Terence Tay Yong Soon
75. Muhammad Farhan Bin Rozzid 83. Evelyn Goh Meow Tse
76. Arasu s/o Duraisamy (Second Deputy General Secretary) CLEANSEAS BRANCH OFFICIALS
(General Secretary) 95. Mohamad Asren Bin Mohamad
96. Azhar Bin Mohd
7B Keppel Road #12-07 Singapore 089055 I Tel: 6221 6338 I Fax: 6224 0570 I E-mail: spwu@ntuc.org.sg I Website: www.spwu.org.sg
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NEW COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT FOR
3 YEARS WITH PSA CORPORATION
A Collective Agreement (CA) was signed between SPWU and PSA Corporation
on 18 October 2018 at the PSA Auditorium. The CA with PSA Corporation,
which will remain in force until September 2021, will see enhancement to salary
ranges, improvements to allowances for shift work, inclusion of recognition
for 5 years of long service, more assistance on family bereavement cases,
adjustments to flexible benefits schemes, enhancements to medical benefits
and a new Lifelong Learning Fund for members to take charge of their training.
SPWU would like to thank PSA Management for their support. The CA was
sealed in the presence of PSA Management – Mr Ong Kim Pong, PSA Regional
CEO Southeast Asia, Mr Ng Kok Cheong, Head HR, Mr Steven Lee, VP HR,
and SPWU key officials – Ms Jessie Yeo, Executive Secretary, Mr Danny Phua,
President and Mr Arasu Duraisamy, General Secretary.
Following the the CA signing, a simple cake-cutting ceremony took place to
celebrate SPWU’s 72nd Anniversary.
NEW CA WITH PSA MARINE SEALED
S PWU and PSA Marine (PSAM) sealed a new CA at PSA Marine’s West
Coast Base on 5 December 2018. Present from PSA Marine were Mr Er Wei
Lim, Head Corporate Services, Mr Bernard Wong, Head Fleet Management, Ms
Anna Fong, Senior Manager HR & Corp Comms, Mr Andrew Thang, Assistant
Manager HR & Corp Comms, with SPWU key officials – Ms Jessie Yeo,
Executive Secretary, Ms Khoo Woon Kung, Deputy Executive Secretary, Mr
Arasu Duraisamy, General Secretary, Mr Danny Phua, President, Mr Alfred Tan,
Senior IRO and Ms Stephanie Choo, IRO, as witnesses to the CA.
The new CA with PSAM, will see improvements in areas such as salary
ranges, allowances for shift work, inclusion of recognition for 5 years of long
service, assistance on family bereavement cases, adjustments to flexible
benefits schemes, medical benefits, additional benefits such as the Marine
Craft Command Allowance & Cross-Deployment Allowance and a new Lifelong
Learning Fund for members to take charge of their training. These will remain in
force until September 2021.
SEVEN SPWU LEADERS GRADUATE
WITH DIPLOMA IN EMPLOYMENT
RELATIONS
T hey did it! SPWU leaders - Kenny Ng, Ibrahim Peri, Evelyn Goh, Thangamani
Sinniah, Low Chow Wah, Ken Chan and Mahfud Jurami, graduated with a
Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies (OTC-ILS) Diploma in Employment
Relations (DER). SPWU flag flew high as the graduands and their family members,
fellow union leaders and management partners came together to celebrate this
education milestone with the Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute
(OTCi) during the graduation ceremony held at the Singapore University of
Social Sciences’ Performing Arts Theatre, on 6 December 2018.
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SPWU REWARDS MEMBERS’
CHILDREN AT YOUNG SEEDLING &
ACHIEVERS AWARD 2018
I t’s always heartwarming to witness union members’
children being rewarded for their hard work. That is what
happened at the SPWU Young Seedling & Achievers Award
2018 presentation when 69 children of members were
recognised for their outstanding academic performance
and/or excellence in Fine Arts and Sports.
Held at the PSA Building on 6 December 2018, SPWU
joined the recipients’ parents in declaring: “You did us
proud. Well done!” There to spur them on was Associate
Professor Koo Tsai Kee, Advisory Director, Temasek
International Advisors Pte Ltd, who presented the awards
amounting to $102,300. Among them, 36 students
received the SPWU Young Seedling Award and 33 students
received the SPWU Achievers Award. Also cheering these
students on were union officials and management staff. Eleven year old sure-footed Raul may have a
small frame but he is a force to be reckoned
Supported by PSA, PSA Marine, and Temasek Foundation with when he is on the rugby field. “This is
Cares, the awards not only go a long way to help lighten a special moment for us. It’s touching that
the financial burden of union members, they give a the Union steps in to
encouraging boost of confidence to the recipients and recognise this part
their families. of our life. It’s also a
good way to open the
eyes of our colleagues
to see the benefits of
membership,” said
Raul’s father, Rashid
Ismail Baroocha from
CES(QC)/PPT2.
Primary 6 student Nicholas Tan and his 15-year old sister,
Nicole, were seen celebrating their reward with their
parents at the event. Their father, crane operator Stephen
Tan from CES(YC)/STIOCED, said: “It’s good for the
Union to give us support through this meaningful way.”
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