TNAG-0649-FCO40-797-Study-of-labour-relations-in-Hong-Kong-by-Professor-H.-A.-Tu-1977 — Page 144

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In the past few days I have had personal contacts with several trade unionists who have now had the opportunity to read your interim report.

Two main points have emerged. The first is that they feel the report relies almost exclusively on information received from "official and employer sources". They would like to see evidence that a broad spectrum of public opinion in Hong Kong has been consulted.

The second point is that the report should come out more strongly on the Hong Kong Government "setting an example".

to the existence of consultative machinery

They point in the Civil Service and say that this should be changed to a negotiating body on which unions representative of all grades of civil servants would enjoy full union rights. If this were done, then Hong Kong employees would see the value of trade unions and there would be an increase in membership and an extension of collective bargaining in other sectors.

I pass these points on as I am anxious that your final report should be regarded, at least for some considerable time, as the last word on the industrial relations situation in Hong Kong.

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