Pro-democracy labour unions and a student group in Hong Kong failed to garner enough support to hold strikes against looming national security ...
HONG KONG: Pro-democracy labour unions and a student group in Hong Kong failed to garner enough support to hold strikes againstimposed by Beijing, in a blow for the city's protest movement.
Separately, the Secondary School Students Action Platform said it would not initiate a class boycott, as they fell short of some of their targets for in-person votes.Advertisement Most were formed in the past year as activists have spearheaded the biggest push to unionise the laissez-faire, ultra-capitalist finance hub - where collective bargaining rights are not recognised - since Britain handed the city back to China in 1997.
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