The HKAOA is largely ineffective as the General Committee is controlled by a handful of egotistical individuals who are on personal vendettas.
That doesn’t mean we are ineffective industrially. The DPA didn’t contact the Immigration Department. They’d been dissolved by then. It was motivated and honourable individuals who wrote compelling letters to the Director of Immigration who influenced management’s recruiting strategy. Dozens of letters were written.
If you’re waiting for the GC to solve your perceived problems (and your problems aren’t their problems) then stick to having a whine on anonymous forums.