labour legislation which will come before
Legislative Council in June/July (particularly
Bills providing for increased severance
allowances and one week's paid annual
holiday). The Governor expects considerable
opposition to these measures and anything
would be damaging) that could be used to
the It-k+ Guatement give substance to allegations that [weare
legislating under UK trade union pressure
7. Professor Turner is also being consulted
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there are difficulties in communication as he
is taking a year's sabbatical at the University
Sydney
of New South Wales and he is expected to
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oppose the proposal and point to the difficulties
of incorporating non-academics in a programme o
continuous work and search which is now
reaching its final stages.
The FCO view has consistently been that if
a fair and dispassionate assessment of the
trade union situation in Hong Kong is to be
made, the arrangements should be as informal
and unpublicised as possible. Hence the
project should take the form of a piece of
academic research directed at producing an
unbiased and probing analysis of the trade
union movement and industrial relations situation
in Hong Kong and relating the findings of that
analysis to the political, industrial and
social circumstances of the Colony.
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