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Winnie Yu Wai-ming - from frontline nurse to logistics staff and the Chairwoman of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA)

“I’m really sorry. I am a chairwoman who always cries. I also don’t want to be like this,” said Winnie as tears kept rolling down her face during the interview. Winnie talked about the support from her colleagues and the difficulties facing medical workers. She could not hold back her tears after seeing colleagues draw lots for the “dirty team” work; to be isolated after fulfilling their duties; and even writing their last will and testament as they prepared for the worst. Feeling worried and anxious, she empathized with these colleagues. She also worked as a frontline nurse before, with seven years of experience in intensive care.

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Imaginary Reply to (Warning) Letter Issued by the Hospital Authority to Medical Staff During Strike #justforfun

In Reality, Hospital Authority Refuses to Promise Not to Retribute on Staff on Strike Demanding for Adequate Supply of Protective Equipmemt and Border Closure
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/16571

#HAEA #HA #Strike #EmployeeRights
#HealthCrisis #HongKongMedics
Stinky Sewage Liquid, Dust and Stains: Poor Sanitary Condition in Tuen Mun Hospital Dormintory

Hong Kong's Tuen Mun Hospital is notorious in the medical sector for being “hellish”, especially for their nurse’s dormitories. During the coronavirus outbreak, many medical workers decided to move into the hosoital dormitory provided by the hospital, in order to avoid infecting their family members after coming into close contact with coronavirus patients. However, the living condition of the dormitories provided by the hospital is far below standard.

According to medical staff, stinky sewage liquid in black came out from the water faucet in the washroom for at least 10 minutes. The stained-filled mattresses, countertops, floor tiles and rugs were covered in dust. The poor sanitary conditions in these dormitories showed a lack of maintenance and cleanliness over a long period of time.

Source: Stand News #Feb14
http://bit.ly/38qSCpt
#HA #HAEA #TuenMunHospital #CoronavirusOutbreak
#PoliticalRetribution #Strike
Hong Kong Authorities Allegedly Inflict Political Retaliation on Medical Staff Who Demand Complete Border Closure and Adequate Supply of Protective Equipment

This is a letter issued by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority to staff who were absent during the strike demanding complete border closure and the containment of the coronavirus during epidemic outbreak.

#HA #HAEA #Feb26
#Respect #HKMedics
Head of Radiology at Princess Margaret Hospital Resigns and Refuses to Provide List of Employees on Strike

Source: Mingpao #Feb27
#HAEA #HA #PolticalRetaliation #Strike

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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/17889
#Authoritarianism #PoliticalRetribution
Hospital Authorities Launch Political Revenge on Staff On Strike, Hong Kong Medical Doctors Fear to Become the Next Li Wenliang

A number of labor unions including the Hospital Authorities Employment Association (HAEA) have plans to go on strike in protest of the national security law in Hong Kong.

Fan Hung-Ling, chairman of the Hospital Authorities (HA) called the plan to strike "political", violating the neutrality of the HA, and that would not succeed.

The Hospital Authorities even hired a team of lawyers to study the legal issues related to the strike back in February.

Fan said that the human resource department would be responsible for following up on the previous strike, but he did not disclose the costs associated with hiring the lawyers.

According to Law Cheuk-Yiu, the vice-chairman of HAEA, many are concerned that after the implementation of the national security law, medical personnel will not be able to speak freely. The situation might get worse like what happened to the late Dr. Li Wen Liang in Wuhan China. Dr. Li was a whistleblower warning of the Covid-19 outbreak in China. He was accused by the Communist government for disseminating fake news and eventually died of the disease.

Similarly, Hong Kong microbiologist and SARS expert Professor Yuen Kwok-yung has been heavily criticized in China, after he criticized China’s handling of the pandemic in a paper. With the implementation of the national security law, Law said, no one can guarantee if medical staff can tell the truth in the future.

Law also criticized Fan, the chairman of the HA, for having a double standard when Fan claimed that medical staff should not talk about politics nor have a political stance. Law pointed out that how Fan hastily characterized potential strikes as "political strikes" is precisely being political and suppressive. Law reiterated that if medical staff are afraid to tell the truth because of the national security law in the future, it will ultimately affect the treatment of the patients.

Source: Apple Daily
#HAEA #HongKongMedics #HA #Strike
#Reprisal
Hospital Authority demands explanation from those went on strike; Union defends it a legitimate industrial action

The #HospitalAuthority issued an email on October 9 to all employees who joined the strike this February, asking for explainations for their absence on each day during the #strike period by October 23.

The HA Employees Alliance, the initiator of the strike, advised its members not to rush to reply the email individually. #HAEA has been seeking legal advice for an aligned response. On October 10, the union further announced issue of a template its for members to reply.

Chairperson of HAEA, Winnie Yu Wai-ming, said that HAEA is a registered union and the strike motion has been supported by members’ votes, therefore the strike was a legal industrial action.

Source: Stand News #Oct9
#Strike #PoliticalOppression
Hospital Authority Retaliates on Medical Workers Indiscriminately

Hong Kong Hospital Authority Employees' Association (#HAEA) initiated a 5-day strike in early 2020, calling on the Hong Kong Government to close all the borders to stop the spread of the Coronavirus from China to Hong Kong. Thousands of medical workers had joined the strike.

Since then, the Hospital Authority (#HA) had threatened its employees multiple times with regard to the strike. In February 2020, the authorities issued letters to medical workers and demanded an explanation on their "absence" during the days of the strike.

In the Radiology Department of Princess Margaret Hospital, several medical workers had joined the strike. The management demanded the department head Dr Ma Ka-fai to hand in a name list of the relevant employees. Dr Ma refused.

According to Stand News, the Human Resources Department recently sent an email to all doctors in the Radiology Department, claiming they had all joined the strike. Vice chair of the union HAEA Law Cheuk-yiu condemned the HR Department for pressuring the Radiology Department.

Source: Stand News #Oct13
This is how HK treats their medical staff after everything they've done to fight COVID. The HK government is trying to induce fear in every possible way to silent our voices.

#HAEA #politicaloppression #GoHKGraphics
#LastYearToday #HongKongChronicles
The Fall of Hong Kong

On Jan 22, 2020, Hong Kong recorded its first "highly suspected" coronavirus case, to cite from Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan.

The case was a 39-year-old man of Chinese nationality who had travelled to Wuhan and arrived in Hong Kong from China via the high speed train.

One year has passed. The total number of #COVID19 cases in Hong Kong hit nearly 10,000 and cost the life of 168 people.

On Jan 22, 2021, the Hong Kong's Hospital Authorities (#HA) even issued a letter to its employees, demanding them to return their salary during the strike.

In 2020, medical workers went on strike for the first time in history, demanding nothing but the shutdown of the border with China, in order to prevent the spread of the virus.

In response to the authorities, the Hospital Authorities Employees Association (#HAEA) chairperson Yu Wai-ming said "then why didn't you close the border back then?"

Source: Stand News #Jan22
https://bit.ly/35YSVbV
#Interview #Courage
Union Leader in Hong Kong Has No Regrets for Pro-democracy Quest and Pledges to Fight til the Very End


Winnie Yu Wai-ming, the chairlady of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) has rehearsed in her mind for many times of being arrested.

Early in the morning at 6am on January 6, 2021, Yu heard loud thumps on her door followed by blaring commands, “Hong Kong Police. Open the door. Hong Kong Police. Open the door.”

Yu’s husband opened the door as instructed. Police rushed in to arrest Yu for her involvement in Legislative Council Primary Election in 2020.

Being arrested for the first time in her life, Yu faced severe charges of the "subversion of state power" under the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL).

Not only was she not afraid, but she also remained so calm that she has surprised evern herself.

Alone in the prison cell that night, she did not pity herself but other fellow protesters who were also being arrested. She thought to herself, “they must have faced much worse treatment than I do.”

Yu was known for sheding tears easily, but Yu didn’t cry at all after the arrest, “crying is giving in to the authorities.”

Even after she was released on bail, Yu didn’t think of stepping down from the frontline. Instead she seized the time to do as much as she could.

Yu often tells people that she has “no regrets”. In just over a year, Yu experienced a lot from partaking in anti-ELAB movement and involving in the primary election to being arrested. Yu said there were no regrets. With a smile on her face, Yu said, “I think I am stiff-necked.”

Nevertheless, Yu has once considered leaving Hong Kong. Now with her travel documents confiscated, Yu said resolutely, “I chose to stay put and I won’t regret. If any Hongkonger wishes to stay and continue the fight, I am willing to fight with them til the end.”

Source: inmediahk.net; #Feb9
https://bit.ly/3cTm0tu

#WinnieYu #YuWaiMing #PrimaryElection #MassArrest
#FirstHand #Feb28
Student and Hospital Workers Call for Boycott of Govt Tracking App and Support for Arrested Pro-Dem Candidates

1730 | Mong Kok

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On Feb 28, 2021 in Hong Kong, pro-democracy students and hospital workers held a street booth in Mongkok, to call for Hongkongers to boycott the government's "#LeaveHomeSafe" mobile app, rejecting the regime's surveillance and tracking. They also call on Hongkongers to resist to the end.

The booth is held by #StudentPoliticism together with Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA).

In addition to calling for the boycott of the tracking app, they also call attention to the police's political persecution of the participants in the "35+" pro-democracy primary elections in 2020.

On Feb 28, 2021, the police announced that the arrestees are charged for sedition under the National Security Law, and will be brought to court on the morning of the next day on March 1.

Spokesperson of Student Politicism Wong Yat-Chin encouraged citizens to attend the court hearing to show support for the pro-democracy camp.

In Mongkok, thd police deployed over 30 officers to surround the small street booth; at one point, the officers occupied two-thirds of the pedestrian walkway. They left after recording personal details of the activists, and warned them not to be too loud.

In less than an hour later, the police hoisted the "#purpleflag" warning civilians in the area of potentially "violating the #NationalSecurityLaw".

Hong Kong Police Violently Subdue a Civilian in Downtown Mongkok on a Sunday
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/28806

#FirstHand #Feb28 #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #SayNo
#Vaccination #MassCancellation
Hong Kong Govt blames "smear campaign" as seniors cancel vaccination bookings in droves

The Hong Kong government issued a statement, accusing an unnamed medical professional group of "smearing" the government's vaccination program.

The Health Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) responded in a facebook post on March 18, 2021, reiterating their criticisms against the vaccination program. The medical workers' group pointed out again that the third-stage data remains insufficient for the Sinovac vaccine on patients above 60 years of age. Therefore they remain opposed to the Hong Kong government's call for citizens to receive the made-in-China Sinovac vaccine.

The group stressed that they had never been opposed to vaccination in general.

Meanwhile, the numerous deaths following vaccinations seem to have shaken the faith in the vaccine among senior citizens, although the government's expert committee insisted that the deaths are not directly related.

Speaking on a radio show on the public broadcaster RTHK, Lin Wai-yiu of the Society for Community Organization noted that they had been assisting seniors with vaccine-related inquiries. In the beginning of the program, most inquiries came from those who wanted to take the vaccine. Recently, however, half of the seniors who called wanted to cancel their appointments.

"They're cancelling in droves," Lin said. "Perhaps they read about the severe cases, and they were concerned whether their health condition is suitable for the vaccine."

He added that the government had cautioned that those with chronic illnesses should be be careful with the vaccine, but 70% of seniors often have some chronic illnesses. Additionally, some of them do not have the ability to make a medical judgment and cannot evaluate the risks involved; they would cancel their booking first, and make a decision later after consulting with their doctor.

Source: Stand News #Mar18
https://www.thestandnews.com/society/政府譴責抹黑疫苗-醫管局員工陣線反駁-科興數據未盡充分-社協-半數查詢長者望取消打針/

#FailedState #Vaccine #CoronavirusPandemic #WuhanPneumonia
#FirstHand #May30
#NeverSurrender: Hong Kong Hospital Authorities Employees' Alliance Speaks Up for June 4 Tiananmen Massacre

On Sunday, May 30, 2021, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) set up a street booth in Causeway Bay, calling on Honngkongers not to surrender to political suppression.

The Hong Kong police banned a protest on the day and the annual candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen Massacere in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on June 4, 2021.

Soon after the pro-democracy representatives of the medical workers' union set up their booth at around 16:30, the police intercepted them and had their personal information recorded.

The police officers stayed and monitored the booth at close range in the shoppers' district.

A black banner is displayed next to the booth. The words in white read "The Battle of Memory".

#NeverGiveUp #NeverForget #June4 #TiananmenMassacre #PoliceState #Union #StreetBooth #CandlelightVigil #PoliticalSuppression
#Censorship #WhiteTerror
Hong Kong Authorities Warn Medical Workers' Union Over Film Screenings Related to Tiananmen Massacre

Text: InMedia #May27
Image: HAEA

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Hong Kong Authorities Warn Medical Workers' Union Over Film Screenings Related to Tiananmen Massacre

The Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (#HAEA) has been warned by the government's Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (#OFNAA), when they organized screenings for the film "Conjugation" and the documentary "I Have Graduated".

Both films are related to the Chinese Communist Party's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy citizens at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, in Beijing.

The Union recounted that their office was visited by the film censors without prior notice on the evening of May 27, 2021. The authorities demanded the Union to answer whether approval has been sought to show the films. Responding to media's inquiry, the film censors claimed that they received "inquiry" whether the screenings had followed the Film Censorship Ordinance.

The Union condemned the film censors for not showing their identification cards and taking photos of the office.

Text: InMedia #May27
Image: HAEA

#PoliceState #PoliticalSuppression #PublicScreening #Conjugation #IHaveGraduated #June4 #Cinema #TiananmenMassacre #BannedFilms