Bernard Rodrigues

Bernard Rodrigues
Born (1933-03-15)March 15, 1933
Singapore
Died August 17, 2015(2015-08-17) (aged 82)
Westmead Hospital
Known for Politician

Bernard Rodrigues (15 March 1933 – 17 August 2015) was a Singaporean politician. Rodrigues represented Telok Blangah as an legislative assemblyman in the 1st Parliament of Singapore from 1965 till 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 constuctive 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

  1. ↑ "List of MPs by Parliament". Parliament of Singapore. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Salleh, Nur Asyiqin Mohamad (August 24, 2015). "Founding PAP member and union leader, Mr Bernard Rodrigues, has died". The Strait Times. Archived from the original on December 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Latif, Asad (2009). Lim Kim San: A Builder of Singapore. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 153–156. ISBN 978-9812309280.


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