Port Workers Reject a 7% Pay Raise and Take Strike into a Third week in Hong Kong

“Hundreds of port workers at Li Ka- shing’s Hong Kong terminals surrounded his Cheung Kong Center headquarters in the city’s business district after rejecting pay rise aimed at ending a three-week strike.

Contract workers of Li’s Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. were offered a 7 percent raise in pay by their employers, the company said in an e-mail, compared with the workers’ demand for a 23 percent increase. Hong Kong government’s mediators have helped narrow the differences between employers and workers, Labour Secretary Matthew Cheung told reporters today….”

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