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作者: KarlMarx (保衛穆斯林！) 看板: NTULabor
標題: [轉錄]香港外傭抗議減薪！
時間: Fri Nov 23 21:55:22 2001
Friday, November 23, 2001
south china morning post
Foreign helpers protest wage cut
MARY ANN BENITEZ
About 50 foreign domestic helpers of different nationalities
marched on Friday morning to the Central Government Offices
(CGO) and Legislative Council, shouting, ''No to another wage
cut!''. They were reacting to a Sunday Morning Post report last
weekend that the Government was reviewing their minimum wage,
currently set at HK$3,670, and strong indications that it could
be slashed.
It would be the second pay cut since 1999, when wages were reduced
from K$3,860. The representatives of the Asian Migrant Co-ordinating
Body marched from St John's Cathedral at Battery Path to the Education
and Manpower Bureau at the Central Government Offices, before winding
their way down Garden Road to the Legislative Council chambers for
the hour-long protest.
Wearing white plastic aprons and bandannas, the women with a couple
of male representatives, shouted slogans as one held a bondage chain
and several held out swords displaying proposals to cut wages, ban
stay-out arrangements and impose a HK$100 levy.
''Migrant workers have already suffered a wage cut of 5 per cent of
HK$190 a month in 1999. Now, it seems the Hong Kong government is bent
on approving the lobbying of the Employers of Domestic Helpers Association
to lower further our wages to 1991 level of HK$3,200,'' said Flora Belinan,
spokesman for Co-ordinating Body, which is an alliance of migrant groups
of Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
She said as well as the pay cut, a proposal from the bureau to abolish
the live-out arrangement of foreign maids to protect the jobs of local
amahs is attacking the rights and livelihood of migrant workers while
driving a wedge between the workers.
Adviser of the Association of Sri Lankans, Mr D Manuweera, said the
helpers's wages could not go down any further. ''They (wages) have gone
down to the lowest scale of the salary.''
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Address: No.4 Jordan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Tel. no.: (852) 2723-7536
Fax no.: (852) 2735-4559
E-mail: apmmf@hknet.com
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