Therefore, we started our industrial action "work-to-rule" in March last year and also we had our poster campaign just like the
After that, "flying poster" in Aprilx1977x U.K. a month later.
the Secretary for the Civil Service said that he would reconsider our case if we could provide evidence with the comparison with the private sector. We do find a 3rd party independent report which was done by the Hong Kong Productivity Sentre and the figures showed that we are underpaid. But the Secretary for the Civil Service insisted on the Hong Kong Ray Government Pay Investigation Unit Report which only picked out 17 companies from the private sector. But the Hong Kong Productivity Centre Rarixdes took 88 comparnies for comparison. Also, we found a lot of discrepancies from the Government Pay Investigation Unit Report and we doubted some of the companies are not true and the Government explained that there that is only minor mistakes. Because of those mistakes, our salary has been pushed down by the Pay Investigation Unit Report.
We could not have concret answers through a series of meetings with the Secretary for the Civil Service. We fed that Government is having the turning-around attitude. So, we tried our last resort in Hong Kong
The Governor also that is: Appeal to the Governor-in-Council. authorised the Secretary for the Civil Service to tell us that we have no statutory right to appeal to the Governor-in-Council and the case
again was then referred to the Secretary for the Civil Service.
We could not find any good reason advanced by the Hong Kong Government in rejecting our claims and we can only reckon that we are being singled out for special adverse treatment, because the number of Shorthand-Audio Typist in Government service is very small (only 400 in total) and our union is therefore not at all strong by trade union standards and neither can we have the support of any large union organisations behind us. We are very inexperienced in handling negotiation and we think that the experienced officers on the Government side always try to outmanouvre us.
We can no longer maintain
representations in Hong Kong and therefore hope that we can obtain support from those interested in our cause in England.
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