HSEU members to enjoy more savings and perks through AUPE co-op partnership

Options for more savings, loans and recreational benefits are now available to Healthcare Services Employees’ Union (HSEU) members.

HSEU President K Thanaletchimi signed a memorandum of understanding with Amalgamated Union of Public Employees Credit Co-operative (ACC) Chief Executive Sanjeev Tiwari on 17 October 2025 that would extend the ACC’s benefits to HSEU members who wish to join the co-op.

Benefits include the ACC’s 5-month term deposit, which offers 1.5 per cent interest per annum (at time of publishing), competitive loan rates and recreational discounts for staycations, and F&B outlets—just to name a few.

Mr Sanjeev, who is also the general secretary of AUPE, shared that the ACC will be working on other benefits specifically for HSEU members.

He said: “HSEU and AUPE share a very close bond from the beginning, being part of the same family… We want to ensure that HSEU members can benefit from the ACC programmes.

“The ACC's mission is about serving our members and building a better tomorrow. Through this collaboration, both HSEU and ACC will be stronger in serving and delivering value-added benefits to our members.”

For Ms Thanaletchimi, the partnership is all about ensuring better benefits for HSEU members.

“What we want is to help our members to save money, especially our foreign worker members. Save and get good interest, so when they go back, they can go back with a sizeable fund,” said Ms Thanaletchimi.

New HSEU office

The MOU signing was done in conjunction with HSEU’s new office opening at The Adelphi.

The ceremony was graced by Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng.

Ms Thanaletchimi shared that the freshly renovated 3,000 square feet office space was chosen for its central location on Coleman Street, and that it will be a place where the union will be able to host meetings with and for its healthcare association partners.

“More importantly, [the expansion] is for our workers. It is to ensure that our existing workers are comfortable and that they feel they belong,” she added.

Mr Ng congratulated HSEU on their new premises, and for how far they have come over the last three over decades.

HSEU was formed back in 1989 with 1,000 members.

Today, the union’s membership has grown to over 50,000 members, making it one of NTUC’s largest affiliated unions.

Mr Ng shared that as Singapore becomes a super-aged society, HSEU will have an even bigger role to play in the healthcare sector.

He asked for HSEU to continue putting workers—especially the youth—at the core of everything that they do, and to continue working with tripartite partners to build on the success it has achieved.

“With HSEU going more and more upstream into the professional spaces like nurses, doctors and dentists, it must see how it can form different partnerships so as to champion all the [healthcare] working people—including PMEs.”

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