Many have made fun of the word strike as in official reports and news there was no mention of the word strike, and instead it was "did not turn up for work" and our creative Singaporeans had came up with their own version of word replacement for #busstrike there was things like "Mass MC" , "Mass Smoking Break", "Assemble" and even "Service Disruption to serve you better" LOL.
Here's a photo of the bus drivers' assemble
For those who are not familiar with Singapore's Law like these foreign bus drivers, going on strike without applying for license and permission to do so is ILLEGAL!
And this is why this is a big hooha here cause nobody goes on strike here, so far there's only two groups the pilots followed by these bus drivers. This is definitely a difficult situation that SMRT now faces, if they were to give in this time round, they might be giving the workers more bargaining power and this might put bus services in risk if the workers were to use strike as a way to ask for more. On the other hand, if they were to dismiss the workers then they would be viewed as heartless and cause chaos for the foreign worker cohort (we know how many of our jobs were hold by them, what if they all go on strike, plus firstly it was us who first say we needed them) Hmm, but I viewed the salary review for SMRT drivers and found out that despite what was claimed as unfair, the Chinese National bus drivers had not taken into consideration on their housing subsidy which is $220 that both Malaysian bus driver and Singaporean bus driver do not have. If we were to put skills into consideration both Singaporeans and Malaysians could speak 2 languages Mandarin and English where else they could only speak one type? Probably our Singaporeans and Malaysians bus drivers are more familiar with the roads here and could change route if there is urgent need to thus more flexiblity? Was all these some of the factors that caused the unbalance distribution of their pay scale? Only SMRT has the answers.
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