LABOUR unions are to solicit support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to push the Hongkong Government to provide greater protection for workers who participate in union activities.
The Hongkong Confederation of Trade Unions will lodge a formal complaint with the ILO next month stating that the administration has failed to comply with the International Labour Convention in safeguarding workers' rights to organise unions, strike and collective bargaining.
The executive director of the confederation, Mr Lee Chuek-yan, said it was difficult to conform with the requirement that workers, fired after participating in union action, prove the two factors were related.
''It is difficult to prove intention because employers can make up so many excuses to fire their workers,'' he said.