I caught on a link that my friend posted on Facebook, a report by the BBC about the woeful working conditions in Singapore concerning the upcoming IR at Marina Bay.

According to the report, workers at the Marina IR were being subjected to oppressive conditions, forced to meet crushing deadlines while their monthly/OT pay was being withheld. Workers that proved resistant were immediately evicted, and these are now pursuing legal action against their employers.

Now this is serious news, a case where labour laws and possibly even human rights were violated. So, I checked Thursday’s papers and the ST online to see whether any similar reports were done, and this is what I found:

SINGAPORE ROCKS SINGAPORE ROCKS SINGAPORE ROCKS LET’S GET OUT OF THIS CRISIS COME TOGETHER WOOHOO!

Source: Alastair Su

When you have a system where the big Boss is extremely sensitive to any kind of bad news, those without principle all shut up because they rather have their pay then to make the big Boss look bad.

For the sake of our future generations, should we not do something?

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