Hong Kong Opposition Trade Union To Disband on National Security Fears
September 20, 2021
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as posted by the channelHong Kong’s largest opposition trade union, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, said it would disband amid growing concern that it will be targeted by the government for allegedly violating the China-imposed national security law.
The 145,000-member pro-democracy group is the latest organization to disband, following the dissolution of a teachers’ union and rally organizer the Civil Human Rights Front last month.
The announcement comes as select Hong Kong residents voted for members of the Election Committee that will choose the city's leader in the first polls following reforms meant to ensure candidates with Beijing loyalty.
Voting on the Confederation of Trade Unions process to disband will take place at a special meeting on Oct. 3, and in a scenario where the group doesn’t get sufficient votes to disband, its way of operating would have to be deliberated, it said.
The HKCTU was founded in 1990 by former lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, who also served as the union’s general secretary. In April, Lee was sentenced to 14 months’ jail for attending an unauthorized protest and this month he was charged under the national security law. The group’s president, Carol Ng, was charged under the security law several months earlier.
The confederation, founded 31 years ago, aligned itself with city’s pro-democracy movements and opposed a 2019 extradition bill, which in part sparked the city’s historic protests. The HKCTU supported a mass strike by workers in opposition to the bill.
Critics say the changes restrict freedoms Hong Kong was promised it could maintain for 50 years following the territory’s 1997 handover to China from colonial Britain.
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