FAP Traitors Allow FTrash to Protect Own Kind in Retrenchment

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Half of production PMEs retrenched are SGs

December 28th, 2013 | Author: Editorial

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HGST, a Western Digital company that specialises in data storage, has retrenched 530 workers from its Singapore facility.

Most of those retrenched are production managers, and about half are Singaporeans. That means the other half retrenched production managers are foreigners.

It’s not known who the decision makers were in deciding who to retrench. But if the decision makers were foreigners, it’s not known if they are attempting to protect their own kinds by deciding to retrench more Singaporeans first.

About 1,840 workers still remain in the Singapore office – many of them are engineering and support staff. It’s not known how many of them are Singaporeans but it is expected that the proportion of Singaporeans to be lower among the engineering and support staff.

HGST’s Singapore facility manufactures high-end hard drives.

The company cited rising labour and operating costs as the reasons for the retrenchment exercise. It is moving its manufacturing facilities to Thailand.

HGST said this retrenchment exercise is part of their plan to re-position the Singapore facility from a mass volume manufacturing site to a Pilot Production, Engineering and Shared Service Center. The Singapore Pilot Production lines will receive new hard drive disk or solid state disk products for further development, quality assurance and testing before passing them on to Thailand for larger scale manufacturing.

Heng Chee How, executive secretary of the United Workers of Electrical and Electrical Industries (UWEEI), said UWEEI is saddened by the retrenchment exercise but understood that the company faces keen challenges to maintain cost competitiveness.

Mr Heng is also the MP for Whampoa and the Senior Minister of State at the Prime Minister’s Office. He is also the Deputy Leader of the House.

UWEEI said it will work closely with HGST to ensure that the affected workers are treated fairly and will try its best to render all possible assistance, and help train and place the affected employees in new jobs.

HGST was first a part of IBM Singapore’s Storage Systems Division before its merger with Hitachi in 2003. In 2011, Western Digital acquired HGST in a move to strengthen its foothold in the enterprise market.
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