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Chee Hong Tat to be appointed NTUC deputy secretary-general Toggle share menu Advertisement Chee Hong Tat to be appointed NTUC deputy secretary-general Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat speaking to the media on Jul 14, 2020. (Photo: Zhaki Abdullah) 07 May 2021 12:10PM) Share this content Bookmark SINGAPORE: Senior Minister of State for Transport and for Foreign Affairs Chee Hong Tat will join the labour movement as the deputy secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) from May 15, NTUC said on Friday (May 7). H...

COURTESY OF ELIZABETH BARBUSH Gresham stands before boarded-up homes that EBDI promised to renovate. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video “There were many opportunities to do the right thing, to make a difference for those families whose lives will never be the same. The pain and the horror of the whole process, of being relocated and displaced, of gentrified community — you can’t imagine the pain that goes through your mind.” These are the words of Donald Gresham, who is presiden...

Wearing mandatory masks and holding permits that allowed them to circulate, more than 20 representatives of Chile’s major unions tried to persuade spe

Housing Our Neighbors and United Workers are urging Mayor Brandon Scott to extend and expand hotel contracts to house the homeless through the rest of the pandemic.

Groups like United Workers (members shown here at a 2018 rally) were instrumental in campaigning to create the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund and pressuing the city to fund it. Now, the fund has made its first awards to community land trusts — a key pillar in Baltimore activists' vision for development without displacement. (Photo courtesy United Workers) Sometime later this year, or early next, the South Baltimore Community Land Trust will cut the ribbon on its first project: eight new, energy-efficient housing units behind Benjamin Franklin High School, sold to people in the Curtis...