Originally Posted by
Samsonite
Really Clause 7?? The one that is exactly the same as most western worlds labour laws. So we want a Western World contract but we dont want to abide by their kind of laws. Good luck of every getting a contract with that kind of mentality.
Which was the very concern with Clause 7. It was designed to be used in conjunction with first world labor laws in agreements with unions who have the power to negotiate collective agreements. In Hong Kong there is no collective bargaining, we’re all on individual contracts and the local labor laws don’t support first world agreements.
That’s not to say Clause 7 should have been a deal breaker. It simply should have been explained better and adjusted as required to better represent the reality of Hong Kong’s labor laws and a skeptical pilot body who’d seen colleagues sacked when the company used contractural loop holes. Unfortunately we were dealing with a DFO and GMA who were never here in 2001. Our rotational management policy is why this company routinely fails to learn from its mistakes nor understand the mindset of those that suffered as a result of the mistakes.
That being said, we can argue hypotheticals all day, and I will. I’d suggest we’d hardly be worse off today if we’d voted in TA16.