Pretty good highcirrus. I notice that LKY mentioned trust and confidence, as detailed in your excellent post:
LKY - 'For positive relations, you need trust. The employee must know the employer has his interest at heart. He's not just out to squeeze him and show profits and be done with it and he gets big bonuses. In other words, there must be confidence.'
LKY - He noted that confidence can be built over time if management shares information with workers on the challenges ahead.
Maybe LKY could engender trust in the future by making SIA employment contracts worth more that the scrappy pieces of paper that they are currently printed on, by not unilaterally changing the things at any old time that suits him. And secondly, I’m sure confidence could be created by sharing the exact information on costs saved during the recent post SARS panic stricken exercise of retrenchments, compulsory unpaid leave and swingeing pay cuts, not indulged in by the mature and measured managements of the other SARS affected international and regional carriers.
I think we need a lot more than fine words from LKY. On second thoughts we don’t even need these, as a hell of a lot of us will never believe him anyway and we’re off from this blighted island as soon as possible.