247 unions in Hong Kong have been forced to disband since 2021.
HK continually pushing the authoritarian capitalism envelope
HK continually pushing the authoritarian capitalism envelope
Fifth Anniversary of the National Security Law: Authoritarian Crackdown, Labour Movement Endures - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Five years ago, Beijing imposed the Hong Kong National Security Law (NSL), under the pretext of safeguarding “national security”, to silence dissent and dismantle civil society. In 2025, the Hong Kong...
hklabourrights.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
247 unions in Hong Kong have been forced to disband since 2021.
HK continually pushing the authoritarian capitalism envelope
HK continually pushing the authoritarian capitalism envelope
The "who's worse" game is a race to the bottom. I'll point out how Brazil sued local BYD operations for human trafficking and slavery with "31 people sharing a toilet" who "worked for 25 days straight, their passports confiscated, and 60% of their wages withheld." hklabourrights.org/news/behind-...
Behind BYD’s Billion-Dollar Boom: The Harsh Reality of Worker Exploitation - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD surpassed US$100 billion in revenue last year, establishing itself as a global leader in the EV industry and expanding rapidly into international markets. Howev...
hklabourrights.org
April 29, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The "who's worse" game is a race to the bottom. I'll point out how Brazil sued local BYD operations for human trafficking and slavery with "31 people sharing a toilet" who "worked for 25 days straight, their passports confiscated, and 60% of their wages withheld." hklabourrights.org/news/behind-...
FRANCE / CHINA: Trade Unions Unite to Protest SHEIN’s Entry into Paris BHV Department Store hklabourrights.org/news/french-...
French Trade Unions Unite to Protest SHEIN’s Entry into Paris BHV Department Store - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Chinese fast-fashion brand SHEIN is set to open its first permanent physical store in Paris this November, located in the well-known BHV Marais department store. However, the move has sparked a series...
hklabourrights.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
FRANCE / CHINA: Trade Unions Unite to Protest SHEIN’s Entry into Paris BHV Department Store hklabourrights.org/news/french-...
MYANMAR: Leaked Files Reveal China’s Role in Aiding Myanmar Junta Surveillance hklabourrights.org/news/leaked-...
Leaked Files Reveal China’s Role in Aiding Myanmar Junta Surveillance - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Leaked documents dated 11 September suggest Beijing has been supplying Myanmar’s military junta with surveillance technology used to monitor communications, track opponents and, in some cases, facilit...
hklabourrights.org
September 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
MYANMAR: Leaked Files Reveal China’s Role in Aiding Myanmar Junta Surveillance hklabourrights.org/news/leaked-...
HONG KONG: Small Victories, Big Defiance: Cleaning Workers Push Back hklabourrights.org/news/small-v...
Small Victories, Big Defiance: Cleaning Workers Push Back in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
In the wake of the National Security Law and the newly amended Trade Union Ordinance, Hong Kong’s labour movement has come under unprecedented pressure. Waves of union dissolutions have left workers’ ...
hklabourrights.org
August 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
HONG KONG: Small Victories, Big Defiance: Cleaning Workers Push Back hklabourrights.org/news/small-v...
CHINA / GLOBAL: Chinese Sweatshops Go Global: Workers Strike, Outrage Spreads hklabourrights.org/news/chinese...
Chinese Sweatshops Go Global: Workers Strike, Outrage Spreads - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Chinese companies operating abroad are facing mounting criticism over exploitative labour practices. In Italy, firms accused of running inhumane factories have drawn attention from local trade unions,...
hklabourrights.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
CHINA / GLOBAL: Chinese Sweatshops Go Global: Workers Strike, Outrage Spreads hklabourrights.org/news/chinese...
PHILIPPINES: DHL workers in the Philippines strike after warehouse closure raises union-busting fears hklabourrights.org/global-solid...
DHL workers in the Philippines strike after warehouse closure raises union-busting fears - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Workers at a DHL warehouse in the Philippines have gone on strike after the logistics company announced its closure just weeks after they won collective bargaining rights, prompting accusations that t...
hklabourrights.org
September 10, 2026 at 11:13 AM
PHILIPPINES: DHL workers in the Philippines strike after warehouse closure raises union-busting fears hklabourrights.org/global-solid...
Selina Cheng, chair of HK Journalists Association, fights Dow Jones in #HongKong after being dismissed for union participation. Private prosecution defends #pressfreedom & #unionrights.
💬 “We can still keep moving forward.” Cheng said.
bit.ly/4bf1QGZ
💬 “We can still keep moving forward.” Cheng said.
bit.ly/4bf1QGZ
Hong Kong Journalist Fights Global Media Giant for Union and Press Rights - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
A Hong Kong journalist is taking on one of the world’s largest media companies in a private criminal prosecution after authorities refused to act. Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Asso...
bit.ly
March 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Selina Cheng, chair of HK Journalists Association, fights Dow Jones in #HongKong after being dismissed for union participation. Private prosecution defends #pressfreedom & #unionrights.
💬 “We can still keep moving forward.” Cheng said.
bit.ly/4bf1QGZ
💬 “We can still keep moving forward.” Cheng said.
bit.ly/4bf1QGZ
The guilty verdict in the London #HKETO espionage case sends a clear message: free societies will not tolerate #TransnationalRepression. Trade offices must not become tools of political surveillance.
Full: bit.ly/42QoyRU
#HongKong
Full: bit.ly/42QoyRU
#HongKong
Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor Welcomes Guilty Verdict in London HKETO Espionage Case - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor (HKLRM) welcomes today’s guilty verdict in the London Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) espionage case.
bit.ly
May 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The guilty verdict in the London #HKETO espionage case sends a clear message: free societies will not tolerate #TransnationalRepression. Trade offices must not become tools of political surveillance.
Full: bit.ly/42QoyRU
#HongKong
Full: bit.ly/42QoyRU
#HongKong
Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months.
HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...
HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...
Winnie Yu Wai-Ming - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
She's been detained since March 2022. Winnie Yu is a registered nurse by profession and the former chairperson of the Hospital Authority Employee Alliance. Yu won the democracy camp’s primaries in the...
hklabourrights.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months.
HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...
HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low hklabourrights.org/research/win...
If labor rights in Hong Kong is something you are interested in I do recommend the work of Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor... which can be found here:
hklabourrights.org
hklabourrights.org
Home - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
| Research | Analysis | Advocacy | UK-based NGO focuses on Hong Kong labour rights run by independent trade unionists, activists, and researchers
hklabourrights.org
May 16, 2024 at 8:45 PM
If labor rights in Hong Kong is something you are interested in I do recommend the work of Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor... which can be found here:
hklabourrights.org
hklabourrights.org
Shein's "Squid Game" method doesn't use hourly or piece rates but "一套神秘的評分系統" (a mysterious scoring system) to squeeze their warehouse workers. Trying to one up Amazon in humanity-crushing logistics
Shein 血汗評分制度：工人在《魷魚遊戲》裡搶單求生 - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
在中國的 Shein 倉庫，一場現實版的《魷魚遊戲》正日日上演。不同的是，這場競賽沒有明確規則。工人每天被掉進由演算法主導的「100分評分制度」，在不透明的競爭機制下拼命搶單、追分數，只為賺取一份微薄的薪金。
hklabourrights.org
May 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Shein's "Squid Game" method doesn't use hourly or piece rates but "一套神秘的評分系統" (a mysterious scoring system) to squeeze their warehouse workers. Trying to one up Amazon in humanity-crushing logistics
Great to see!
For a bit more (Cantonese) coverage of the protest organised by @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Workers against the CCP, Democracy for Hong Kong & Taiwan Democracy & women's fightback
For a bit more (Cantonese) coverage of the protest organised by @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Workers against the CCP, Democracy for Hong Kong & Taiwan Democracy & women's fightback
March 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Great to see!
For a bit more (Cantonese) coverage of the protest organised by @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Workers against the CCP, Democracy for Hong Kong & Taiwan Democracy & women's fightback
For a bit more (Cantonese) coverage of the protest organised by @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Workers against the CCP, Democracy for Hong Kong & Taiwan Democracy & women's fightback
6 years on from #HongKong’s healthcare strike. Union chair #WinnieYu later jailed for representing the frontline medics in the pro-democracy legislative primary election, union dissolved.
When organising is criminalised, international solidarity isn’t optional. ✊🏽
Full: bit.ly/4bvnXuB
When organising is criminalised, international solidarity isn’t optional. ✊🏽
Full: bit.ly/4bvnXuB
Hong Kong’s Healthcare Strike, Six Years On - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
In late 2019, as COVID-19 began spreading from Wuhan, senior medical figures in Hong Kong urged the government to introduce border controls and public health protections. The government, led by then C...
bit.ly
February 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
6 years on from #HongKong’s healthcare strike. Union chair #WinnieYu later jailed for representing the frontline medics in the pro-democracy legislative primary election, union dissolved.
When organising is criminalised, international solidarity isn’t optional. ✊🏽
Full: bit.ly/4bvnXuB
When organising is criminalised, international solidarity isn’t optional. ✊🏽
Full: bit.ly/4bvnXuB
CN Repression / Haft
"On 24 June 2021, under the shadow of the National Security Law, Apple Daily printed its final edition. Its founder, Jimmy Lai, and six senior editorial staff were later convicted and handed prison sentences of up to 20 years."
hklabourrights.org/news/a-newsp...
"On 24 June 2021, under the shadow of the National Security Law, Apple Daily printed its final edition. Its founder, Jimmy Lai, and six senior editorial staff were later convicted and handed prison sentences of up to 20 years."
hklabourrights.org/news/a-newsp...
A Newspaper for Hong Kong: Five Years Since the Closure of Apple Daily - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
“We are publishing a newspaper for Hong Kong people.” That was the mission statement set out by Apple Daily in its inaugural editorial on 20 June 1995. Headlined We Belong to Hong Kong, it established...
hklabourrights.org
June 24, 2026 at 5:12 PM
CN Repression / Haft
"On 24 June 2021, under the shadow of the National Security Law, Apple Daily printed its final edition. Its founder, Jimmy Lai, and six senior editorial staff were later convicted and handed prison sentences of up to 20 years."
hklabourrights.org/news/a-newsp...
"On 24 June 2021, under the shadow of the National Security Law, Apple Daily printed its final edition. Its founder, Jimmy Lai, and six senior editorial staff were later convicted and handed prison sentences of up to 20 years."
hklabourrights.org/news/a-newsp...
#HongKong Alliance case: #LeeCheuk-yan sentenced to 7 years. #ChowHang-tung to 7 years and 3 months.
HKLRM is deeply angered and strongly condemns the sentences.
Their "crime"? Peacefully commemorating Tiananmen and calling for democracy for 30 years.
Full: bit.ly/4A2Gf09
HKLRM is deeply angered and strongly condemns the sentences.
Their "crime"? Peacefully commemorating Tiananmen and calling for democracy for 30 years.
Full: bit.ly/4A2Gf09
HK Labour Rights Monitor Condemns Hong Kong Alliance Sentences International Community Must Not Stay Silent on CCP Repression - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
We are deeply angered by these sentences and condemn them in the strongest possible terms. This trial has laid bare that the defendants faced nothing less than a politically engineered prosecution, a ...
bit.ly
September 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
#HongKong Alliance case: #LeeCheuk-yan sentenced to 7 years. #ChowHang-tung to 7 years and 3 months.
HKLRM is deeply angered and strongly condemns the sentences.
Their "crime"? Peacefully commemorating Tiananmen and calling for democracy for 30 years.
Full: bit.ly/4A2Gf09
HKLRM is deeply angered and strongly condemns the sentences.
Their "crime"? Peacefully commemorating Tiananmen and calling for democracy for 30 years.
Full: bit.ly/4A2Gf09
HONG KONG: ITF Speaks Out for Carol Ng, Urge Action for Jailed Unionists hklabourrights.org/news/itf-spe...
ITF Speaks Out for Carol Ng, Urge Action for Jailed Unionists - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) issued a statement on the World Day of Social Justice, resolutely condemning the Hong Kong government’s suppression of trade unions and expressing...
hklabourrights.org
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
HONG KONG: ITF Speaks Out for Carol Ng, Urge Action for Jailed Unionists hklabourrights.org/news/itf-spe...
Carol Ng, ‘the rebel flight attendant,’ is released! Very happy she's free, but repression of labor activists remains incredibly serious in Hong Kong
Carol Ng Released: A Voice for Workers Remembered - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Today (28 July, 2025), Carol Ng Man-yee, former chairperson of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and the British Airways Hong Kong Cabin Crew Association, has been released from prison after...
hklabourrights.org
July 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Carol Ng, ‘the rebel flight attendant,’ is released! Very happy she's free, but repression of labor activists remains incredibly serious in Hong Kong
87 performers from the Labour Union of Dubbing of #HongKong issued a joint warning against #AI voice cloning, calling unauthorised use a violation of their rights and dignity.
Will Hong Kong update protections or leave voice actors exposed?
Full: bit.ly/4r3ZMaK
#labourrights
Will Hong Kong update protections or leave voice actors exposed?
Full: bit.ly/4r3ZMaK
#labourrights
Hong Kong Voice Actors Warn of AI Threat to Voice Rights - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
In the TV drama The Queen of News 2, a news anchor’s likeness and voice are cloned by AI to continue presenting after she leaves her job, sparking outrage over fictional exploitation. But this scenari...
bit.ly
February 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
87 performers from the Labour Union of Dubbing of #HongKong issued a joint warning against #AI voice cloning, calling unauthorised use a violation of their rights and dignity.
Will Hong Kong update protections or leave voice actors exposed?
Full: bit.ly/4r3ZMaK
#labourrights
Will Hong Kong update protections or leave voice actors exposed?
Full: bit.ly/4r3ZMaK
#labourrights
Tis the weekend #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events🧵 for the weekend.
This week 45 HKers whose "Crime" was to contest an election were jailed for "Sedition".
Brazen political oppression & injustice! They should not be in prison!
#FreeOurFriends
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This week 45 HKers whose "Crime" was to contest an election were jailed for "Sedition".
Brazen political oppression & injustice! They should not be in prison!
#FreeOurFriends
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Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor Slams Primary Trial Sentences Urges Global Action on Political Prisoner Release - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Carol Ng, former chairperson of the now-defunct Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), and Winnie Yu, the founder and chairperson of the now-defunct Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HA...
hklabourrights.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Tis the weekend #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events🧵 for the weekend.
This week 45 HKers whose "Crime" was to contest an election were jailed for "Sedition".
Brazen political oppression & injustice! They should not be in prison!
#FreeOurFriends
1/
This week 45 HKers whose "Crime" was to contest an election were jailed for "Sedition".
Brazen political oppression & injustice! They should not be in prison!
#FreeOurFriends
1/
New Event
🗓️11th May
🕚11am UK Time
Join Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor & allies for the 1st "Hong Konger Labour Festival!"
& screening of She's in Jail (at 4pm) in London UK!
Details: hklabourrights.org/event/hong-k...
🗓️11th May
🕚11am UK Time
Join Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor & allies for the 1st "Hong Konger Labour Festival!"
& screening of She's in Jail (at 4pm) in London UK!
Details: hklabourrights.org/event/hong-k...
Hong Konger Labour Festival - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
We are thrilled to announce the first Hong Konger Labour Festival in the UK which will take place on 11th May, hoping to bring together HongKongers to commemorate the spirit of the Hong Kong labour
hklabourrights.org
April 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM
New Event
🗓️11th May
🕚11am UK Time
Join Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor & allies for the 1st "Hong Konger Labour Festival!"
& screening of She's in Jail (at 4pm) in London UK!
Details: hklabourrights.org/event/hong-k...
🗓️11th May
🕚11am UK Time
Join Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor & allies for the 1st "Hong Konger Labour Festival!"
& screening of She's in Jail (at 4pm) in London UK!
Details: hklabourrights.org/event/hong-k...
Then @hklabourrights.bsky.social release highlighting allegations regarding labour conditions in Pop-Mart's supply chain as Starmar Praises them.
hklabourrights.org/news/sweatsh...
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hklabourrights.org/news/sweatsh...
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Sweatshop Claims Unresolved as Starmer Praises Pop Mart China Visit - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has presented Chinese toy giant Pop Mart’s planned European headquarters in London as a key achievement of his recent visit to China, touting the investment as both a d...
hklabourrights.org
March 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Then @hklabourrights.bsky.social release highlighting allegations regarding labour conditions in Pop-Mart's supply chain as Starmar Praises them.
hklabourrights.org/news/sweatsh...
15/
hklabourrights.org/news/sweatsh...
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New event!
📆2nd June
🕗8pm UK time
Join @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Citizens of Our Time Learning Hub & more for Online Forum: "37th Anniversary of June 4th: Retrospect and Continuation" on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/otYyxwG...
Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DYv_4kkmX04/
📆2nd June
🕗8pm UK time
Join @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Citizens of Our Time Learning Hub & more for Online Forum: "37th Anniversary of June 4th: Retrospect and Continuation" on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/otYyxwG...
Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DYv_4kkmX04/
May 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM
New event!
📆2nd June
🕗8pm UK time
Join @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Citizens of Our Time Learning Hub & more for Online Forum: "37th Anniversary of June 4th: Retrospect and Continuation" on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/otYyxwG...
Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DYv_4kkmX04/
📆2nd June
🕗8pm UK time
Join @hklabourrights.bsky.social, Citizens of Our Time Learning Hub & more for Online Forum: "37th Anniversary of June 4th: Retrospect and Continuation" on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/otYyxwG...
Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DYv_4kkmX04/
That's all the events, As always we have a few other things to highlight
Important to highlight the words of Chow Hang-tung as throughout the trial as her defence hasn't just been for her but for all Hong Kongers & others facing repression.
Via @hklabourrights.bsky.social from Nov 2025
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Important to highlight the words of Chow Hang-tung as throughout the trial as her defence hasn't just been for her but for all Hong Kongers & others facing repression.
Via @hklabourrights.bsky.social from Nov 2025
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Alliance Case | Chow Hang-tung Questions: When Did Words Become a Crime? - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Chow Hang Tung, former vice-chair of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, appeared at West Kowloon Court today to seek the dismissal of an “incit...
hklabourrights.org
August 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
That's all the events, As always we have a few other things to highlight
Important to highlight the words of Chow Hang-tung as throughout the trial as her defence hasn't just been for her but for all Hong Kongers & others facing repression.
Via @hklabourrights.bsky.social from Nov 2025
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Important to highlight the words of Chow Hang-tung as throughout the trial as her defence hasn't just been for her but for all Hong Kongers & others facing repression.
Via @hklabourrights.bsky.social from Nov 2025
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HONG KONG / CHINA: Lee Cheuk-yan Faces Sentencing After Decades of Fighting for Workers and Democracy hklabourrights.org/news/lee-che...
Lee Cheuk-yan Faces Sentencing After Decades of Fighting for Workers and Democracy - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察
Veteran Hong Kong trade union leader Lee Cheuk-yan is awaiting sentence after being convicted of inciting others to subvert state power under Hong Kong’s national security law. At the court hearing to...
hklabourrights.org
August 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
HONG KONG / CHINA: Lee Cheuk-yan Faces Sentencing After Decades of Fighting for Workers and Democracy hklabourrights.org/news/lee-che...