Bernard Rodrigues
Bernard Rodrigues | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 March 1933 |
| Died | 17 August 2015 (aged 82) Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Politician |
Bernard Rodrigues (15 March 1933 – 17 August 2015) was a Singaporean politician. Rodrigues represented Telok Blangah as a legislative assemblyman in the 1st Parliament of Singapore from 1965 until 1968.[1] He was a founding member of the People's Action Party and helped establish the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).[2] Rodrigues argued that making the NTUC effective was in the best interest of Singapore, as it would be a constructive alternative to pro-Communist movements. In 1966, he campaigned for government employees to receive their entitled backpay, clashing with Lim Kim San who discouraged such a move.[3] Rodrigues relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1972.[2]
References
- ^ "List of MPs by Parliament". Parliament of Singapore. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ^ a b Salleh, Nur Asyiqin Mohamad (24 August 2015). "Founding PAP member and union leader, Mr Bernard Rodrigues, has died". The Straits Times. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Latif, Asad (2009). Lim Kim San: A Builder of Singapore. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 153–156. ISBN 978-9812309280.