09-11-2007

Anson Chan met representatives of civil service groups

Anson Chan, candidate for the Legislative Council Hong Kong Island by-election, met over twenty representatives of the Hong Kong Federation of Civil Service Unions on the evening before last. Mrs Chan exchanged views with the representatives on issues of concern to civil servants including the contract system, 3+3, outsourcing and morale of the civil service.

The meeting was conducted in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere and lasted almost an hour. Mrs Chan told the civil servant representatives that if she was elected into the legislature, she would concern herself with civil service matters and be their voice both inside and outside the Legislative Council.

Civil service groups present were:

1. Hong Kong Federation of Civil Service Unions
2. General Grades Civil Servants General Union
3. Consumer Services Inspectors' Association--W.S.D.
4. Judicial Clerks Association
5. Union of Midwives
6. Association of Government Technical and Survey Officers
7. Government Clerical Officers General Union
8. Association of Government Secretarial Staff
9. Government Mod I Staff General Union
10. Government Parks, Playgrounds and Environmental Hygiene Chinese Workers Association
11. Association of Hong Kong Civil Servants
12. Hong Kong Clerical Grade Civil Servants General Union
13. Union of Non-Teaching Staff of the Education Department, Government Colleges and Schools
14. Labour Inspectors Association
15. Hong Kong and Kowloon Life Guards Union
16. Association of Police Translators
17. EMSD General and Common Grades Staff Union
18. Union of Fire Services Department Cooks