1 May 2024獨媒#3470
去年曾撤回五一遊行申請 黃迺元、杜振豪今續擺街站
Former Confederation of Trade Unions chairperson Joe Wong and official To Chun-ho cancelled their application to organise a May Day march last year, saying the reason was “known to the public”. This afternoon, they set up a street booth outside Tsuen Wan MTR Station to explain to members of the public the impact of waste charging on frontline workers.
Calculated under the latest formula, the minimum wage will increase by $1.80 to $41.80. To Chun-ho said the direction of the adjustment was worthy of recognition, but noted that the new mechanism adjusted the rate based on the existing minimum wage, whose level was itself too low. “It was flawed from the outset. The legislation passed at only $28; no adjustment would be enough,” To Chun-ho said. They questioned whether the newly estimated minimum wage remained unreasonable, noting that it was far below the $60 “living wage” advocated by civic groups: “Workers work so hard for an hour and still can’t afford a meal.”
前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪去年取消申辦五一遊行，指原因「大眾心中有數」。二人今午在荃灣港鐵站外擺街站，向市民講述垃圾徵費對前線工友的影響。
按最新方程式計算，最低工資料將增加1.8元，至41.8元。杜振豪指，今次調整方向值得肯定，但因新機制是按照現有最低工資水平作調整，而本身的水平太低，「先天不足，佢法例通過得28蚊，點調整都唔夠」，質疑新估算的最低工資水平仍屬不合理，與民間團體提倡的「生活工資」60元相距甚遠，「工人咁辛苦做一個鐘，都買唔到一餐飯」。
1 May 2023獨媒#6383
杜振豪改擺五一街站：無警察關注才算真復常
Former Confederation of Trade Unions chair Joe Wong and official To Chun-ho had originally planned to apply today to hold a march. However, Joe Wong withdrew the application for the May 1 march last week, while To Chun-ho, in the capacity of Cleaning Workers Union and general secretary of the Property Management Workers Union, set up a street booth in Tsuen Wan opposing the importation of foreign workers, with several police officers standing guard nearby. To Chun-ho said wryly that the attention from police officers and reporters that day was not normal: “I hope that when we set up street booths in future, things can return to normal, with not much attention from the police or reporters. That would be the best way for us to make contact with residents; that would be a truly return to normal.”
前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪原訂今日申辦遊行，惟黃迺元上周撤回五一遊行申請，杜振豪則以清潔工會及物管工會總幹事身份在荃灣開街站，反對引入外勞，多名警員在旁戒備。杜振豪苦笑指，是日街站引來警員和記者關注並不正常，「我希望之後做街站係可以復常到冇乜警察關注、冇乜記者關注，咁我哋接觸到街坊就最好啦，呢個先係真正嘅復常。」
27 Apr 2023獨媒#6366
杜振豪：黃迺元撤五一遊行申請不由自主 原因「大眾心中有數」
Whether there will be a march on May 1 this year remains unknown. After the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions withdrew its application, former Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chair Joe Wong and secretary To Chun-ho also cancelled their application yesterday (26th). On To Chun-ho’s Facebook page, it was stated that Joe Wong had been unreachable for a time and subsequently broke down emotionally during a phone call, “clearly under immense pressure”. In a radio interview this morning, To Chun-ho said he believed Joe Wong’s decision to cancel the application was not made voluntarily, adding that “the public knows full well what is going on”. He described the application as a test of society’s return to normality, saying, “The result is that Hong Kong still seems not quite a normal society.”
今年五一是否有遊行仍是未知之數，繼勞聯撤回遊行申請後，前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪昨（26日）亦取消申請；杜振豪在Facebook專頁稱黃曾一度失聯，其後致電時情緒崩潰、「顯然承受了巨大壓力」。杜振豪今早接受電台訪問表示，相信黃迺元取消申請的決定不由自主，背後原因「社會大眾都心中有數係咩事。」他又形容是次申請是對社會復常的試探，「結果係香港似乎仲係一個唔係好正常嘅社會。」
26 Apr 2023獨媒#6364
黃迺元失聯4小時後撤五一遊行申請 杜振豪：連日收滋擾訊息
Former Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chairperson Joe Wong and executive committee member To Chun-ho applied in their personal capacities to hold a May Day march. Joe Wong became unreachable this morning, and To Chun-ho said on Facebook at noon that they had been forced to cancel the application. Joe Wong was also unable to disclose details due to the confidentiality requirement under Article 63 of the National Security Law. To Chun-ho described Joe Wong as having emotionally collapsed and said they had “clearly endured enormous pressure”. To Chun-ho told InMedia that they had not been optimistic about the application, but had thought the police would proactively issue a notice of objection. They said today’s situation was unexpected and believed Wong had done everything possible to defend the right to assembly and procession.
前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪以個人名義申請五一遊行，黃迺元今早失去聯絡，杜振豪中午在Facebook表示，被迫取消遊行申請，黃迺元並受限於《國安法》第63條的保密要求而無法透露詳情，形容黃迺元情緒崩潰，「顯然承受了巨大壓力」。杜振豪向《獨媒》表示本來對遊行申請不樂觀，但以為警方會主動發出反對通知書，今日情況是意料之外，並相信黃已盡了一切努力捍衛集會遊行權利。
23 Apr 2023獨媒#6349
被問如何避免遊行被騎劫 兩前職工盟成員稱是政府責任
Former Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions chairperson Joe Wong and official To Chun-ho earlier applied in their personal capacities to organise a May 1 march, but have yet to receive a letter of no objection. In a Facebook post yesterday explaining the progress of the application, they said police had asked at a meeting how the march could be prevented from being hijacked. Police also showed them screenshots of Facebook comments, including “Even in the UK, I support you all. Keep it up” and “Do we need to bring any gear?”, and asked them to explain their relationship with the commenters and whether members of dissolved civil society groups would take part in the march. They stressed that the march was unrelated to any overseas organisation, and that local trade unions and labour groups had not taken part in its preparations. They also said the organisers had no public powers, so preventing the march from being hijacked should be the government’s responsibility, and urged police to notify them of the application’s result as soon as possible.
前職工盟主席黃迺元及幹事杜振豪早前以個人名義入紙申請舉辦五一遊行，惟至今仍未獲發不反對通知書。他們昨日在Facebook 撰文交代遊行申請進度，稱昨日與警方會面時被問到如避免遊行被騎劫，警方亦展示Facebook 留言截圖，包括「即使喺英國都撐大家 加油」及「使唔使帶架生？」，要求他們交代與留言者的關係，又問會否有已解散的民間團體成員參與遊行。他們強調，是次遊行與任何外地組織無關，本地工會及勞工團體也沒有參與籌備過程，又稱遊行主辦方沒有公權力，避免遊行被騎劫應是政府責任，促警方盡快通知申請結果。
1 Jul 2022獨媒#2162
【七一冇遊行】工會轉到荃灣擺街站 總幹事：未拉未鎖咪試吓做囉！
On July 1, the Hong Kong Property Management and Security Workers General Union set up a street booth in Tsuen Wan. Police arrived three times, recorded people’s personal particulars and said that loudspeakers could not be used. Volunteers distributed leaflets printed with “Hong Kong, our home, let’s protect her together”. Other volunteers made a sign reading “Hey, how are you getting on living in Hong Kong?”, inviting members of the public to vote for the sentence that best represented their lives in Hong Kong. “Can I swear?” ultimately won by a large margin.
七一當日，香港物業管理及保安職工總會在荃灣擺設街站，警方三度到場，登記個人資料並指不能使用揚聲器。有義工派發印有「香港，我們的家，一起守護她」的單張，亦有義工自製了「親，你係香港生活成點呀？」的紙牌，供市民投票選出最能代表其在港生活的句子，最終由「我可以講粗口嗎？」高票勝出。
Translations are supplied by the source workbook. Consult the original reporting for context.
