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Singapore union membership bucks sliding global trend

As industries and labour markets change, NTUC recruitment takes on new tack

Janice Heng

Janice Heng

Published Mon, Apr 30, 2018 · 09:50 PM

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    AS INDUSTRIES and labour markets transform, union membership is falling across the developed world - but in Singapore, the situation appears to be going in the opposite direction.

    Among first-world economies, unionisation rates in the United Kingdom have fallen from a peak of 55 per cent in 1979 to 23.5 per cent in 2016.

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