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Unionised labour and Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway
Where are the people who run Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway, and are they organised into trade unions? I came across an interesting answer to this question the other day…
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, industrial relations, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, labour relations, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway
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