{"id":1108,"date":"2013-04-09T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shehuizhuyizhe.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-08-23T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:23:20","slug":"hong-kong-dockworkers-strike-lays-bare-class-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2013\/04\/09\/1108\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Dockworkers strike lays bare class divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fifteen years without a pay rise \u2013 \u201cWe are like slaves of the company!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Socialist Action (CWI) reporters in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>A very determined strike by 450 Hong Kong dockworkers at the Kwai Tsing container terminal has partly paralysed the world\u2019s third-busiest container port. This is the biggest labour dispute for six years in China\u2019s richest city and has exposed the sharp class divisions that the ruling establishment tries to deny. What the Wall Street Journal describes as a \u201ccrippling strike\u201d shows the potentially awesome power of the working class when it acts and takes the road of collective struggle. Ships headed for Hong Kong, the gateway to southern China\u2019s manufacturing heartland, are facing delays of up to 60 hours, which will \u201cripple across the global supply chain, adding to costs as ships are forced to reroute\u201d, reports the New York Times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The striking workers are members of the HKCTU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The workers\u2019 demand for a pay increase of around 20 percent, after 15 years in which wages have not increased while inflation has eroded their ability to provide for their families, has resonated with wide layers of the public. Groups of workers, youth, students, and ordinary citizens, have flocked to support the strike donating money and food. The strikers\u2019 union, the Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), has so far received over 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars (US$451,000) in donations for the strike. Socialist Action, the supporters of the Committee for a Workers\u2019 International (CWI) in Hong Kong, have so far collected HK$36,000 (US$4,600) for the strike through our street meetings and public collections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can no longer tolerate the exploitation,\u201d striking dockworker Mr Po told us. \u201cThe employers are using blackmail to try to discredit our strike. We are only asking for a reasonable salary. Their offer of only five percent increase is an insult to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The port owners who are reporting losses of 5 million Hong Kong dollars a day (US$644,000) have refused until now to enter negotiations. The first negotiations will reportedly take place on 10 April \u2013 day 14 of the strike \u2013 a sign that the port operator, Li Ka-shing\u2019s Hutchison Whampao, are feeling the pain and must abandon their previous stance that the strikers are outsourced and have \u201cno relationship\u201d with Hutchison and its subsidiary Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT).<\/p>\n<p>The strikers account for 40 percent of the workforce at HIT\u2019s five terminals and the strike has halved the volume of port cargo, according to local media. The breakthrough in forcing HIT to come to the negotiating table should also be viewed with some reservations, however, as the company clearly wants to try to play off the strikers\u2019 union HKCTU against members of HKFTU and HKFLU who have not joined the strike and whose union officials have a record of collaboration with the management. The FLU last week announced its members would work to rule, undoubtedly a sign that these workers sympathise with the strike and share its concerns over reduced wages and bad conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1995, when the outsourcing system was introduced, Hong Kong dockworkers\u2019 wages have fallen in real terms, as the graphic below shows.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1109\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic from South China Morning Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>8th wealthiest in the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is of particular significance that the striking workers are fighting tycoon Li Ka-shing, who with a personal net worth of US$31 billion according to Forbes is the world\u2019s eighth richest man. HIT is a subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings, the world\u2019s largest port operator handling over 8 percent of global cargo. HPH is in turn a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampao, which is Li\u2019s flagship conglomerate spanning from telecom companies to property. Li not only owns 70 percent of Hong Kong\u2019s port, but also large slices of the city\u2019s property market (Li\u2019s Cheung Kong Holdings built one in seven homes), plus hotels, telecom, news media, energy, retailing and transportation, making his business empire an easy target for solidarity actions. Already student groups have begun targeting Li\u2019s supermarket chain \u2018Park n Shop\u2019 for boycott protests. CWI supporters in Sweden staged a solidarity action against Li Ka-shing\u2019s 3 mobile phone network. Hutchison also own ports in more than 20 countries including Australia (Brisbane and Sydney), Britain (Felixstowe and Harwich), Germany (Duisburg), Belgium (Willebroek), Malaysia and China.<\/p>\n<p>One strategy HIT\/Hutchison is now using is to re-route more business through nearby Shenzhen port, in which it also has an ownership stake. While extremely complicated due the total lack of union rights and democratic rights in mainland China and the ever-present risk of repression, the HKCTU should appeal for solidarity action from the Shenzhen dockworkers, not to handle re-routed cargo, pledging in return to energetically seek international protests in the event of sackings or repression against such action by dockworkers in China. The Hong Kong port strike has already received significant international solidarity including from the International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation (ITF). Further messages of support can be sent to the address below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fake outsourcing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HIT\/Hutchison\u2019s deceitful methods have been exposed time and again during the strike. News reports show that Yim Lui Fai, managing director of HIT, is also a director of one of the port subcontractors embroiled in the strike \u2013 a fact the company did its utmost to conceal. Despite HIT claiming it is not party to the dispute, it was HIT that went to court to obtain an injunction banning striking workers from \u2018trespassing\u2019 in the terminal area. Hong Kong\u2019s British-originated legal system has demonstrated its true class bias, with grossly overpaid High Court judges (making HK$210,000-per-month) helping the bosses to undermine workers\u2019 legitimate right to strike.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-establishment Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) has exposed itself to further shame in this conflict. The strike erupted after FTU negotiators went over the heads of the dockworkers and brokered a \u2018deal\u2019 with management for a desultory five percent increase. A further incident exposes the degree of collaboration between the port bosses and the FTU bureaucracy: it transpires that Yau Mei-kwong, a leader of FTU\u2019s Container Transportation Employees General Union is also a manager of Global Stevedoring Service, one of the port subcontracting companies involved in the dispute. The FTU is the local affiliate of the Chinese dictatorship\u2019s puppet union federation in mainland China, and notorious in Hong Kong as a company union. The striking dockworkers are mostly members of the HKCTU, allied with Hong Kong\u2019s pan-democratic (Beijing critical) political parties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low pay and long hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong port is known as one of the world\u2019s most efficient. But this is based on increased exploitation through the system of outsourcing and contract work, which has been used by bosses to undermine pay, conditions and job protection. Hong Kong dockworkers toil long hours without a break sometimes for days at a time. Crane drivers are normally not allowed to leave their control cabins high above the ground even for toilet breaks. They relieve themselves above ground. Workers told us that even when typhoon signals have been sounded they have been ordered to keep working until their work is finished. Overtime is paid only at normal rates. \u201cWe are like slaves of the company\u201d, exclaimed Mr Po.<\/p>\n<p>Resentment over working conditions runs deep. A tally clerk called Guo told us: \u201cThe lounge has no air conditioning, no running water, and is infested with rodents and insects. The environment is worse than [underneath] the flyovers.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCWI supporters and the strike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Socialist Action comrades have been active from the start, with our own tent at the strike and daily participation in strike activities and discussions. There are also a number of student organisations and NGOs playing an active role in the strike. While all support is to be welcomed, unfortunately some of these groups have prefered to dominate discussions and activities, not sufficiently engaging the striking workers or allowing them to speak for themselves. Socialist Action has stressed the importance of regular mass meetings of strikers, which can be used to attract non-striking workers into the strike. Such meetings with democratic participation of all striking workers are also the key to keeping a high level of active participation which is a precondition for success.<\/p>\n<p>Socialist Action fully supports the workers\u2019 demand for a 20 percent pay rise \u2013 for the full claim and not a cent less! We call for an end to outsourcing and the contract labour system \u2013 for workers to be upgraded to direct employees. We also demand legal recognition of union collective bargaining rights, which were abolished in 1997. Kick out the Hutchison Group \u2013 for public ownership and democratic control by the working class of the terminal business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1111\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-73x55.jpg 73w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2013\/08\/HK-Dockworkers-Strike-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Send messages of support to Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hkctu@hkctu.org.hk<\/p>\n<p><em>Kindly also send a copy of your solidarity message to Socialist Action\/CWI for our own reference:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>socialist.hk@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years without a pay rise \u2013 \u201cWe are like slaves of the company!\u201d Socialist Action (CWI) reporters in Hong Kong A very determined strike by 450 Hong Kong dockworkers at the Kwai Tsing container terminal has partly paralysed the world\u2019s third-busiest container port. 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