'Social activist Gilbert Goh organises protest against CECA on 3 Nov
Reflecting
on Ramesh Erramalli’s rant against a condominium security guard, social
activist Gilbert Goh has organised a protest against the Comprehensive
Economic Co-operation Agreement (CEAC) – which permits Indian workers in
127 industries access to Singapore’s labour market – at Hong Lim Park
this Sunday (3 Nov) at 4pm.
Earlier, PV Secretary-General and Cambridge-educated lawyer Lim Tean
has criticised this clause in the CECA allowing the free movement of
labour, saying that another regional FTA – the Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership – has stalled over other country’s refusal to allow
Indian workers access to their labour markets.
In organising the protest, Goh said that it was not right that
Singaporeans are “struggl[ing] on the side with low-end jobs such as
driving Grab or becom[ing] a security officer” while foreigners with
“dubious degree(s)” are able to earn generous salaries in lucrative
sectors such as finance and IT.
Lamenting that “our authorities [appear] resigned to an open-door
policy when it comes to lucrative sectors”, Goh said that public
perception has deteriorated to the point where it seems that “employment
prospects are seemingly open only to foreign talents”.
He also noted that jobs in these industries typically pay very well,
and as a result would likely cause income inequality thereby resulting
in “alot of unhappiness and social unrest” amongst Singaporeans.'
The daft and kiasi and kia chenghu Singaporeans have been living under this anti Singaporean CECA for more than a decade and afraid to air their grievances. While many Singaporeans, including young graduates are facing grave difficulties finding jobs here, some having to write hundreds of application letters without getting a single reply, some having to wait for months and years to a temporary jobs, foreigners are coming in on visit passes and could land a job within days and weeks.
The unfair and one sided CECA has led to hundreds of thousands of fake degree holders from fake universities, from suspicious universities to work here as professionals and earning very high salaries while many Singaporeans especially the PMETs have been booted out, retired prematurely and ended up as Grab drivers and security guards. Many of our young are under employed, unable to get a permanent job and doing part time in MacDonalds or as food deliverers using their electric scooters.
Singaporeans cannot keep quiet and so nothing as these are signs being read as acceptance of their pathetic state of affair, acquiescence, given up, and thus in a way seen as accepting this dreadful and humiliating CECA. No saying anything, no whimpering, not kpkb, is read as everything is ok. So the CECA is ok. Singaporeans you die your business as the half baked, fakes keep coming in to take your jobs, steal your lunches and abuse you as useless people in your very own country, in your very own backyard as if you don't belong here. This place is for anyone and for everyone that is here, no need to be citizens, no need to do NS.
Singaporeans if they continue to behave like sheeps being led to the slaughter without resisting deserve to be slaughtered and their homes and country taken away from them by foreigners.
This is what Simon Lim wrote in TRE.
Often unseen, this has led to broken families, depressed local wages,
reduced employment opportunities and underemployment for local PMETs.
Even former DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam commented in 2017 that “it
would be mindless to have an open border without any policy framework to
govern and constrain the flow of people into your job market. It will
not just be wrong politics but wrong economics.”
Indeed, many Singaporean graduates and PMETs are paying heavy prices
for the incompetency and greed of their political leadership. If this
continues, they need to understand that their future and their
livelihood are at stake.
Very clearly, our book-smart PAP generals and scholars are no match
at all for those street-smart Indian politicians. Lee Hsien Loong and
his cabinet have been totally out-smarted, out-flanked and
out-manouveured by the Indian government.
Simon Lim
PS. Had an early race to run, so could not post in the morning.
Some comments posted in TRE
The last protest at Hong Lim Park with a large crowd was the one about Population White Paper. Make this attendance better than that one. Help to spread the words and jio as many people as we can. Stop being a 懦夫 or weakling who always suffer in silence.
I don’t want to see the day when Singaporeans need to kneel and bow to foreigners for mercy, like during the Japanese Occupation experienced by my parents.
CECA is killing Singaporeans. I don’t want my children and grandchildren to suffer.
I hope you don’t like to see that too!!
Now with CECA which allows Indian Company to have Intra Corporate transfers, all they have to do is recruit new Indian workers back at their Indian Office under their company name and then transfer them to the Singapore office. These people can even bring their dependents over and work in Singapore. This is a loophole which allows them to bring their own kind and thus avoid recruiting local Singaporeans. Our own Ministers all got tricked AND UP TO NOW CANNOT TAKE ANY ACTIONS.
No wonder there is now a total of 800,000 Indians working in Singapore solving Modi’s unemployment problems in India.
China is indeed very smart. They refuse to allow the Indians to bring in their workers to China as they have their own people to take care of. As a result, the RCEP Agreement cannot be signed up to now.
Do You want to still vote for these kind of stupid Ministers in the coming election ?
Don’t kill your own future generations.
Ask them where the benefits are for $G citizens either way.
It is just not CECA but the FT policies we need to abolish.
This means abolishing the root cause of all our problems – The Cancer Clown’s Circus.