{"id":170257389,"date":"2012-11-30T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amichetti.posterous.com\/industrial-harmony-is-more-important-than-equ"},"modified":"2012-11-30T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T02:08:00","slug":"industrial-harmony-is-more-important-than-equ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/2012\/11\/30\/industrial-harmony-is-more-important-than-equ\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Industrial harmony&#8221; is more important than equal rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_short_quote\"><p>Maintaining industrial harmony is very important to Singapore, particularly because public transport is one of the essential services so we have to take it in a very serious manner,&#8221; she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/singaporelocalnews\/view\/1240133\/1\/.html\">channelnewsasia.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bus drivers have a genuine concern: their Malay colleagues have a different contract than them. Yet, they are doing the same job with the same job description. This is discrimination by race \/ nationality. It means bus drivers&#8217; contracts are neither equal nor equitable. Yes, SMRT should step up and ensure these complaints are handled in an appropriate manner via appropriate channels. But I genuinely wonder: is &#8220;industrial harmony&#8221; &#8212; that is, ensuring that public transport is running &#8212; more important than equality between humans? Is it more important than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmo.gov.sg\/content\/pmosite\/mediacentre\/speechesninterviews\/primeminister\/2012\/July\/speech_by_prime_ministerleehsienloongatteckgheeirccracialharmony.html\">racial harmony<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining industrial harmony is very important to Singapore, particularly because public transport is one of the essential services so we have to take it in a very serious manner,&#8221; she added. via channelnewsasia.com The bus drivers have a genuin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,17,18],"class_list":["post-170257389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadianobservations","tag-equality","tag-singapore","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rX5R-bwnIV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170257389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170257389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170257389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170257389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170257389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170257389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}