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Housing officers to step up action

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Housing officers have escalated their plans to disrupt next month's district council elections in protest at the Housing Authority's plan to privatise estate management.

A three-day work-to-rule has been planned during which election-related jobs will be rejected.

Earlier, a one-day strike had been planned on polling day - November 28.

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The Alliance of Housing Department Staff Unions said yesterday the move was to show their anger about the Government's refusal to listen to them.

Alliance members would only do 'housing-related' jobs from November 26-28, protest organiser Lam Man-cheuk said.

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'Monitoring of election advertisements or assemblies, keeping polling stations in order or other election-related jobs will not be done,' Mr Lam said.

The alliance represents 9,000 of the 14,500 officers in the department.

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