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manner of consultation cannot be designed to foster good staff relations but only as a means of providing Government with a pseudo- consultation body of civil servants which can be held responsible for imposing on all serving officers measures calculated to impair their chances of fair treatment and to bring about a deterioration in their conditions of employment.
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This Association represents among its 8,500 members, largely members of Governement nurses and teachers, both of which grades feel seriously aggrieved by Government's failure to implement the 1965 Salaries Commission's recommendations on equal pay.
We are
in full sympathy with the protests which these grades of officers have registered with His Excellency the Governor and with Your Lordship, and find it hard to believe that we should be serving either their or other officers' best interests if we entered into a further agreement with Government for the continuation of the Senior Civil Service Council under its present Constitution. We should greatly appreciate Your Lordship's views and advice on this matter, and suggest that as part of the general move forwards improving labour relations and social stability in Hong Kong, it would be beneficial to institute some form of Royal Commission to enquire into the matter of staff relations in the Hong Kong Civil Service.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Lordship's humble and obedient servant,
Chung Wal Leng
(W. L. Chung)
Chairman.
c.c. His Excellency, the Governor,
Establishment Officer
President, S.N.E.O.A. President, A.E.C.S. Mr. D. Jones, M.P.