Eleven Demands, No Meeting: NTUCB Takes Fight Online

Weeks after presenting the government with eleven demands, the NTUCB says it has yet to be invited to the negotiating table. The union says it is not pulling back the pressure on the government. Instead, the union is escalating its public campaign to push for its 11 governance and anti-corruption demands, and it is doing so online. This is now NTUCB President Ella Waight explained it.

 

Ella Waight, President, NTUCB

“For the 11 demands that we’ve made, many were basically to eliminate corruption, but we have not been invited to a meeting with the Prime Minister. We have a petition, an online petition that we have been sharing on WhatsApp, on our Facebook page, the NTUCB Facebook page, where it’s two clicks, two clicks and you sign that online petition. We want to ensure that we have enough persons who have signed a petition to pressure government to listen to us with those 11 demands. We also have what we’re doing right now. We are calling an email blast. If you go on our Facebook page and if you want it on a WhatsApp, you can contact us at 611-9809 and we’ll send it to you on WhatsApp. Where you can go on our Facebook page, click on the link. It will take you to all the photos of all your elected officials, whether they are your area reps or mayors. And beneath their picture, you will see the constituency. You click on the constituency. It will take you to your email. You go to your email, and you can either type in your name or if you have an electronic signature, put it there or just send it without any name on it. And because it comes from your valid email address, it is sent to that elected official, and they will get your email that says, “I support the 11 demands of the NTUCB. As my elected official, you need to ensure that you listen.” So we’re moving. Yes, we are moving away from that hitting-the-streets aspect because it is these elected officials that make these decisions or can change the course of this country.”

 

The NTUCB is also preparing for another ‘Black Friday’ campaign to encourage workers nationwide to wear black to work on Friday, November 13th, as a show of solidarity for good governance reforms.

 

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