Labour dispute in Hong Kong settled
Extract from international Trade Union News |TN| 5 =
1st March 1967
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the East
After several weeks of negotiations, the dispute between the East Asia Branch of the Cotton Industry Workers' General Union, Hong Kong, and the employers Asia Textiles Mill in Hong Kong ended when both sides arrived at a compromise whereby the services of the ten dismissed workers, upon their resumption of work, will be terminated under the regulations of the Employers and Servants Ordinance.
Some 270 textile workers in Hong Kong were on strike from 11 to 24 November 1966, i upport of the union's demand for the reinstatement of their ten dismissed colleagues. On 28 November, eighteen strikers on the picket line were arrested and fined 15 Hong Kong dollars each.
The International Textile and Garment Workers Federation and the Textile Workers Asian Regional Organisation (TWARO) morally and materially support the Hong Kong workers' struggle.
Along with the reached agreement, the management of the East Asia Textiles Mill agreed to pay compensation to all the ten workers involved, and in particular each worker will receive 1.50 Hong Kong dollars per day and other allowances due to them for the period of the strike from 11 to 24 November, half-day wages from the period from 25 December to 2 February 1967, 500 Hong Kong dollars as compensation for loss of employment, 300 Hong Kong dollars as 'one month's wages in lieu of one month's notice, as well as an annual bonus. Altbgether the amount each of these workers receive is around 1,450 Hong Kong dollars. (There are 5.70 Hong Kong dollars to one US dollar and 16 Hong Kong dollars to one pound sterling.)
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