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Prior to November 2012, the last industrial action in Singapore had been a legal strike in 1986 that involved workers at the U.S.-based oil equipment manufacturer Hydril. [3] Bus services in Singapore are managed by several public transport operators, including SBS Transit and SMRT Buses. [4] At the time of the strike, SMRT managed a quarter of ...
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On 2 January 1986, 61 workers from American oilfield equipment company Hydril voted to strike and picketed outside their factory. The two-day strike, which was sanctioned by then Secretary General of the NTUC, Ong Teng Cheong, was over the alleged victimisation and dismissal of six union members and officials.
A weather radar with a range of 240 km (150 mi) was set up at Kallang Airport in 1948, and an upper-air observatory was formed in 1953 to study the vertical profile of the atmosphere by releasing weather balloons. [5] With Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965, the observation network in Singapore seceded from the MMS and became ...
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The company experienced a 15-week strike in 1947, and a 142-day strike over wages from 1955 into 1956. Trolleybus service ended in December 1962, and the company headquarters was moved from London to Singapore in 1964. By the late 1960s, the STC's financial state had worsened; with the April 1971 repeal of the Traction Ordinance, its losses ...