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SINGAPORE – The labour movement’s top leadership has reaffirmed its support for labour chief Ng Chee Meng and said he will remain secretary-general of NTUC.
Questions have been raised about Mr Ng’s position in the labour movement after the PAP team he led in Sengkang GRC lost to the Workers’ Party in last Friday’s (July 10) election.
In a statement on Tuesday, NTUC president Mary Liew said Mr Ng will retain his position in NTUC.
She said: “As an NTUC elected position, it is a position which stands independent of political appointments. The members of the NTUC central committee stand in unanimous support for Brother Ng Chee Meng as secretary-general of NTUC.”
A Cabinet minister has held the secretary-general post for the last 40 years. Mr Lim Chee Onn was the first labour chief to be appointed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office in 1980.
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