Stories about workers’ experiences, the many ways our volunteers help, insights and facts that TWC2 have unearthed

23 10, 2013

Workers turn flash mob at Yale-NUS College

2019-08-30T16:34:16+08:00October 23rd, 2013|Articles, Happenings|

By TK “The students had a blast!" said Professor Anju Mary Paul. "Their interactions with the workers both in Little India and today have fundamentally changed their views about migrant workers in Singapore.” Paul is from Yale-NUS College's Division of Social Sciences, and was speaking to TWC2 after the college hosted a visit by migrant

22 10, 2013

Caught doing illegal work — a lucky break for Ramachandran

2019-08-30T16:34:16+08:00October 22nd, 2013|Articles, Stories|

By Benjamin Wong Arumugam Ramachandran first came to Singapore four years ago. For three years Ramachandran worked injury free, but seven months ago, during a routine construction job, Ramachandran injured his knee. At first, he was unwilling to report it, and tried to carry on working, hoping the pain would go away eventually. For the

19 10, 2013

‘The sweets were delicious’

2019-08-30T16:34:17+08:00October 19th, 2013|Articles, Stories|

Once in a while, Transient Workers Count Too succeeds in helping a worker get everything that is due to him. Not only is the worker happy, so are we. Deliriously. But there was a month in which everything looked very bleak for Hazrat (not his real name). His employer had submitted salary vouchers with forged

14 10, 2013

Television’s a treat

2019-08-30T16:34:17+08:00October 14th, 2013|Articles, Happenings|

By T K “Photo photo”, the men called out to the TWC2 volunteers to help take pictures, as they lined up beside the movie director, chests out, shoulders squared and faces to the lens. This was at the screening of  "Television (2012)" by Bangladeshi film director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. The film was among several in the listing

9 10, 2013

65 percent of injured and salary-claim workers threatened with premature repatriation

2019-08-30T16:34:17+08:00October 9th, 2013|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, Happenings|

For both groups -- those regularly working and those with injury and salary claims-- the threat of premature repatriation creates a lot of stress. It is the most important stress factor among working workers, and the second-most important, after being injured, among injured and salary-claim workers. Having uncleared debts incurred in agents fees also hung

7 10, 2013

Shoriful and Afroza marry by phone

2019-08-30T16:34:17+08:00October 7th, 2013|Articles, Stories|

Webmaster: Sometimes we need to be reminded that migrant workers may come from very different cultures. Shoriful's story about getting married may sound very strange, but is quite typical for men from Bangladesh. Money concerns also feature prominently, heightened by expectations that workers ought to be remitting large amounts of money when in truth, some

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