Additional Brief for Mr. Anthony Royle's Meeting with a Delegation led by Mr. Clive Jenkins
Hong Kong Trade Union Registration (Amendment) Bill.
Previous Representations
(a) Mr. Royle saw Mr. James Johnson MP about the Bill on
3 November.
(b) Representations have also been received from Mr. Gibson,
General Secretary of the National Union of Hosiery
(c)
and Knitwear Workers.
The British TUC has indicated its disquiet, and after
a preliminary discussion at the Overseas Labour
Consultative Committee on 30 October, with Lord
Lothian in the chair, a detailed examination of the
Bill is to be undertaken by officials of the TUC and
the FCO (the TUC's comments are contained in a letter
from Mr. Feather of 4 December).
Nature of Objections
2.
There are four principal objections to the Bill.
(a) Registration of temporary unions.
This is being deleted from the Bill, largely as a result
of representations from the Hong Kong TUC made in the
Labour Advisory Board that workers might be disinclined
to join trade unions if they were easily able to
organise temporary unions to meet special circumstances.
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