We Singaporean are reduced to reading misdeed news concerning our home grown company from external news agencies instead. Click on the link and watch the video that accompany the news article.
Aircraft repair jobs sold to foreign workers, resumes not important
Some snippets from the news article:
AWW supplied workers for two facilities, Mobile Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in Mobile, Alabama and San Antonio Aerospace, which are both controlled by ST Aerospace. San Antonio Aerospace is a division of ST Aerospace, the largest aircraft repair company in world.
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The drive for profits is so big, Williams and other insiders said, that the contractors often falsify the qualifications of the imports.
"We had two,” she said. “One of them was a female. She was about 16. It was a brother and a sister. One guy was a grocery bagger, one was a security guard in Puerto Rico. Their ages were between 18 and 22.”
Their ages are important because it takes years of experience or schooling to learn how to repair a big jet, experience they couldn’t have had.
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One former SAA mechanic, who spent years learning his trade before being laid off, said foreign workers got their training on the job from the Americans they worked with.
"The more experienced mechanics, we would get paired up with either one or two of these guys,” he says. “And they would watch us for a month or so. And that’s how they would get their training.”
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Williams also has an e-mail trail from AWW president Harding to Moh Loong Loh, the President of San Antonio Aerospace. He described one candidate as having “ 25 percent English skills.”
Workers need English to communicate with their supervisors and to read repair manuals, so this is a key safety issue. American SAA workers said many imports cannot speak English at all.
The question is, does ST Aerospace knows about this issue all along? I mean the issue of under qualification of repair mechanics at their own workshops. From this whole article, it seems like this whole affair is planned for and known. But doesn’t this seems so chillingly similar to what is happening in Singapore now?
Also, I wonder what is wrong with Straits Times, they can publish Lee Wei Ling’s article on how ineffective is MOH’s measure against H1N1 yet so conveniently passed over such article?
apprehensive,
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