25. It is more difficult to deal with the problem of what to do in the sphere of industrial relations in face of the employees' expression of a need for change and the inability of the present trade unions to meet that need (para 78). The Hong Kong TUC has proposed that employers should be compelled by law to recognise and bargain with trade unions and that collective agreements should be legally enforceable (para 79). The first part is critical since if, as the HKTUC perhaps hopes, the choice of recognition between Left and Right lay with the empbyer, the effect would be to create an unrepresentative situation in which the FTU would be virtually obliged to react. The alternative would be some process of election to decide which union was representative: but this would also provoke a confrontation at the level of individual undertakings.
26. The report concludes with the three tentative proposals outlined in para 80 and summarized in paragraph 4 of the covering Paper.
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