IUFUniting Food, Farm and Hotel Workers World-Wide New Publication from Hong Kong tells the story of The HKCTU - How it All Began
Posted to the IUF website 01-May-2006 Share this article.
The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) plays a vital role in China today.
- It is the major independent trade union center representing workers in Hong Kong;
- It provides leadership to workers and representation in the Legislative Council;
- On July 1, 2003, the HKCTU played a key role in mobilizing as many as 500,000 in a march against the anti-democratic National Security Bill (Article 3). This mobilization successfully led to the subsequent withdrawal of the bill by the government; the public march was the largest since the 1989 demonstration against the Tiananmen Massacre.
- It represents hope for workers in Hong Kong and a future to look toward;
- It is playing an important role in the region (especially in Northeast Asia where it is linking up democratic and autonomous unions in Korea and Taiwan) and it speaks as one of the major voices of labour in Asia.
Yet the HKCTU was only founded in 1990;
This new publication gives a brief outline history of the IUF�s co-operation with the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee in the early 1980s, which played an important role in the formation of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions.
Click here to read the full version of "The HKCTU � How It All Began".