Mr. ANDREW WONG (in Contanese) : Sir, I think I am the
only Councillor who has much
Unions (Amendment) Bill 1988.
reservations on the Trade
Originally I could have
raised a number of amendments to amend the
the Bill, but I
would have to make too many amendments. If all these
are
they
amendments will be adopted, then will be going against the
spirit of the amendment Bill. And it seems to me that if
we would
would like to
like to amend the provisions of the Bill, and
the Committen St I may
I may not stand the chance to win.
air Nevertheless, I will still like to speak-out my views
against the Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill 1988 SO that
for future review, especially when the these views will be recorded I will be remembered when problem of politicisation of trade union becomes more and. we talk about sensitive issue dimilar to this one.
more serious.
when
for
sir, on the 8 June 1988, the Secretary
Education and Manpower moved the Second Reading of the
t Bill
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stated clearly the purpose of the
Bill. The problem arose from 1985 when
election
the Legislative Council.
we first have had
Among the 24
functional constituencies, we have two coming from the
to adopt the electoral format labour constituency and we decided that we should have Lone
vote per one union and so trade unions would have to nominate of decide on the candidates that they would like to support. that they would like to support.
which
tol
But the seckien oncerning the section 34 the Ordinance
stated that already said the funds of a registered trade union are not
allowed to be applied either directly or indirectly for
or
of
transferred to any person for political purpose, but the
any political purpose but it was stated that private
received by candidates by the Lepistatul Comical election donation would not be restricted, and the trade unions
Later,
Governan