CONFIDENTIAL
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Staff Side of the Senior Civil Service Council has agreed
the outline of a proposed new machinery to settle disputes
with departmental grades about pay issues. Detailed
proposals for the new machinery are being worked out for
submission to the Executive Council and it may be possible
to discuss them with Professor Turner in November before
formal consultation with the Staff Side takes place.
HONG KONG CIVIL SERVANTS GENERAL UNION
1/ 29.
This new service-wide union now has nine
affiliates with about 10,000 members and they include
unions with a large membership of lower paid and
industrial civil servants. Its Executive Committee called
on the Secretary for the Civil Service on 12th September
and was advised not to apply for representation on the
Senior Civil Service Council until it had a substantial
ordinary membership and its financial position was
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İsound. Its main other interests are the establishment
of machinery to settle grade disputes and the provision
of housing assistance for all civil servants.
30.
The Union has made informal contact with the
three main staff associations and has met with a cool
response. Indeed the Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants'
Association has sent a detailed report to the British
TUC expressing its concern over the establishment of
the Union which the Association considers to be detrimental
to the interests of the trade union movement in the
Civil Service.
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