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point at which either employers were obliged to accept voluntary arbitration
or a public board of inquiry was appointed, but no attempt has so far
been made to use this.*
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Such official procedures have, of course, in other countries
frequently been exploited by trade unions as instruments to confront,
or levers to move, employers who refused to negotiate The puzzle in
Hong Kong is why, despite its high level of industrialisation, no such
pressure should have developed in its case.
There is a separate procedure for a Committee of Enquiry to be set
up in disputes in the civil service, under the 1968 agreement which
established the present negotiating council, but even this has been
to in only one case.
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