CONFIDENTIAL
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香港下亞畢道
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You will have seen from your copy of the Governor's telegram to Professor Willoughby that we are involved in a long standing dispute with the technical grades in the Public Works Department.
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The trouble goes back at least as far as the 1971 Salaries Commission, whose findings on these grades have never been acceptable to the staff concerned. The issues have been examined from time to time since 1971 and this has culminated in a comprehensive review of the technical grades.
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with improved pay scales and career prospects are based on as careful a comparison with the private
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as generous as can be justified on the basis of the evidence. However, our proposals have not been accepted by the staff associations concerned and the members of one (the Association of Government Land and Engineering Surveying Officers) are already refusing to do outdoor work. This means in effect that most of them are doing no work at all because their indoor work arises from their field work; and every day several hundred other men who want to work, have to be sent home.
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3. If this industrial action is prolonged it will from HAM 212/548/2 seriously affect, if not halt, both public and private construction programmes. We could also be faced with similar action from other technical grade associations.
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It has been difficult to decide the best course of action in these circumstances, bearing in mind the public interest on the one hand and the need to resolve what is clearly a deeply felt grievance on the other.
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J.A.B. Stewart, Esq., OBE Hong Kong & General Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London SW1
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