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Association of Scientific Technical and Managerial Staffs
General Secretary Clive Jenkins
10-26A Jamestown Road, London NW1 7DT telephone 01-267 4422
Telex:25226 ASTMS LONDON
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4 KK 5/16 5714
7,8,10,12
8th March, 1973
Dear Mr Royle,
Re:
ORGANISED SALARIED STAFFS IN HONG KONG
When we met on Tuesday 20th February, I put to you that there was now a strong case for encouragement of the development of stable and classic collective bargaining machinery in Hong Kong.
Our interests are based upon groups of expatriate staffs for whom we bargain in London but we also have members who are "locally engaged". Some of these will have contracts that are capable of ultimate determination in the courts of either countries i.e. a licensed aircraft engineer may be recruited in New Zealand so his contract will have to be dealt with in accordance with the laws of that country.
Our new problem is that we have been approached - and are continually being approached - by members of ours who go to work in the Colony or by groups already there who are British citizens and would like to be represented collectively in negotiations with employers. Once we start
doing any kind of work on their behalf we are then faced with the desire of their well-qualified Chinese colleagues to join in.
It seems to us very much that there is a case for having an Industrial Relations Code for the Colony and the establishment of two new pieces of machinery. One of these might be an Arbitration Tribunal patterned on the Industrial Courts Act (1919) but with the capacity for a recognised bargaining agent to make a unilateral reference.
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