{"id":9373,"date":"2021-01-17T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118082\/hong-kong-unions-likely-tread-carefully-mandatory"},"modified":"2021-01-17T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T09:55:57","slug":"hong-kong-unions-likely-to-tread-carefully-as-mandatory-allegiance-requirement-for-civil-servants-heralds-arduous-era-for-citys-labour-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/hong-kong-unions-likely-to-tread-carefully-as-mandatory-allegiance-requirement-for-civil-servants-heralds-arduous-era-for-citys-labour-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong unions likely to \u2018tread carefully\u2019 as mandatory allegiance requirement for civil servants heralds \u2018arduous\u2019 era for city\u2019s labour movement"},"content":{"rendered":"The dissolution of a civil servants\u2019 union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong is likely to be an isolated incident but various public sector employee groups will become more cautious as a result of the government\u2019s oath-taking requirement, according to a veteran unionist.The warning from Leung Chau-ting came hours after the Union for New Civil Servants announced its disbandment on Saturday night in response to the requirement for the 180,000-strong workforce to pledge\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118082\/hong-kong-unions-likely-tread-carefully-mandatory\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dissolution of a civil servants\u2019 union formed during the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong is likely to be an isolated incident but various public sector employee groups will become more cautious as a result of the government\u2019s oath-taking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"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\/9373"}],"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\/949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}