{"id":9206,"date":"2021-01-16T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118044\/civil-service-union-formed-during-hong-kong-protests"},"modified":"2021-01-16T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:54:40","slug":"civil-service-union-formed-during-hong-kong-protests-becomes-first-to-disband-in-response-to-oath-taking-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/civil-service-union-formed-during-hong-kong-protests-becomes-first-to-disband-in-response-to-oath-taking-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil service union formed during Hong Kong protests becomes first to disband in response to oath-taking rule"},"content":{"rendered":"A civil servants\u2019 union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong has become the first to disband since it became a requirement for public sector workers to pledge allegiance to the city and its mini-constitution.\r\rUnion for New Civil Servants chairman Michael Ngan Mo-chau announced the move in a Facebook post late on Saturday night and said the disbandment was in response to the oath-taking requirement which could result in some members having to leave the government.\r\rThe\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118044\/civil-service-union-formed-during-hong-kong-protests\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civil servants\u2019 union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong has become the first to disband since it became a requirement for public sector workers to pledge allegiance to the city and its mini-constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Union for New Civi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}