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SINGAPORE — When an unethical company was putting pressure on its workers to resign during an economic downturn in 1986 in order to avoid paying retrenchment benefits, Mr Lim Boon Heng, who was then the assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), called for a strike.

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SINGAPORE — When an unethical company was putting pressure on its workers to resign during an economic downturn in 1986 in order to avoid paying retrenchment benefits, Mr Lim Boon Heng, who was then the assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), called for a strike.

It turned out to be the last legal strike in Singapore.

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