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1 Dec 2012

Author:
ANP/AFP

Singapore to deport Chinese bus drivers in strike

Singapore will deport 29...Chinese bus drivers and prosecute five others for taking part in the city-state's first strike since the 1980s...[following] a two-day stoppage to demand better pay and working conditions…The strikers…did not belong to any union and were questioning why they were being paid less than their Malaysian counterparts…SMRT has promised to look into the strikers' demands, fumigate their bedbug-infested dormitory rooms, find alternative housing in 2013 and open permanent communication lines with its Chinese workers