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No. HKK 5/16
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PRIVACY MARKING
-In Confidence
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
Clive Jenkins Esq
General Secretary
Association of Scientific,
Type 1 +
Technical and Managerial Staffs
10-26A Jamestown Road
London NW1 7DT
FROM
Mr Royle
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
fcc: Blind.
Mr John Tilney MP
S T Kidd Esq Colonial Secretariat
Hong Kong ]
ORGANIZED SALARIED STAFFS IN HONG KONG
In my letter of 21 March I promised to write again
about the proposals outlined in your letter of
8 March for improvement of the industrial relations
machinery in Hong Kong. We have now had a chance to
consider your proposals in conjunction with the Hong
Kong Government.
It seems to us that a prerequisite for the introduction
of compulsory arbitration incorporating the use of
standing arbitration machinery and for machinery to
determine recognition should be the existence of
strong and responsible unions which are supported by
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the majority of workers. This, fear is not yet the
1༽s_༥༤༤ ¢་(་པོ་ཡག་ case in Hong Kong.A number of factors have combined
against the development of strong and effective unions.
They have been and are still
still,politically dominated;
most are aligned with either the Communist or the
Kuomintang faction in Hong Kong. The multiplicity of
small employers and the resulting organizational
difficulties for trade unions, together with high
labour turnover and high employment levels, are also
significant factors. All this has resulted in weak
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