The Union
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THE HONG KONG CIVII, SERVANTS GENERAL UNION
The Hong Kong Civil Servants General Union was registered on 17 February 1978. Its membership comprises several tens of ordinary members and 13 affiliated individual grade staff associations with a total claimed membership of about 9,000 (see the Appendix). Before registration, the Union was known as the Pre-Amalganation Co-ordinating Team (PACT) with 16 staff associations as members. Two of these associations consisted of mainly MOD 1 staff (about 4,000) and hence PACT had always claimed to represent NOD 1 staff who were excluded from central consultation. The Union still claims to represent mainly junior staff although one of the two MOD 1 staff associations (with about 1.500 members) has not yet formally affiliated to the Union. The main object of the Union is to break the monopoly of the existing throa Main Staff Associations on central consultation. The Union's other main platforms are housing allowances for officers who are at present not eligible for direct assistance with housing and the establishment of acceptable machinery for settling disputes with individual grade associations. The General Union has failed to recruit ordinary members in any significant number and is now operating de facto as a federation of its affiliated staff associations.
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Civil Service Branch has kept up an informal dialogue with the Union's leaders before and after registration. Since its inception, the Union has been advised informally by acting SCS that it should not think in terms of seeking recognition to sit on the Staff Side of the Senior Civil Service Cowl until it has at least 5,000 ordinary members, has shown itself to be a responsible organisation and has achieved a sound financial base. So far, the Union has not applied formally for recognition. The Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants Association opposes strongly any official recognition of the Union and has taken cooption to the informal contact between Civil Service Branch and the Union. has also written at length to the T.U.C. in U.K, pointing out that the setting up of the H.K.C.S.G.U. is detrimental to the trade union movement in Hong Kong.
The leaders
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The Chairman of the Union, Hr Anthony Luk (1) is a
陸冬青 Senior Health Inspector responsible for licencing in the Urban Services Department (N.T.). Mr Luk has been in the health inspectorate since 1961 and was promoted last year. He is an able man but is dissatisfied with his career achievement and przspects, particularly in comparizon with former colleagues, such as Peter Tsao of TCD. He is particularly sore that he receives no housing assistance. He has few hobbies and trade union activities occupy about all his spare time. He regards the Chinese Civil Servants Association (CCSA) as an outdated organisation which is incapable of looking after the interest of civil servants and has taken upon himself the task of replacing CCSA by means of a federation of staff associations under his leadership. He has attended overseas trade union seminars and visited China and Taiwan last year. He has very firm views about trade unionism and believes that staff relations must be conducted on the basis of equal status for management and staff associations. He is articulate and talks sensibly in a
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