Four local unions yesterday handed in petitions against a recent suggestion by indirectly-elected lawmaker Cheang Chi Keong that civil society should consider the possibility of setting up a ratio for non-locals to be hired as casino dealers (croupiers).
The groups are the Macau Gaming Industry Frontline Workers (FMG), New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, People Power, and Workers’ Self-Help Union.
Activists from the People Power group including its high-profile Vice-Chairman Cheong Weng Fat handed their petition, addressed to Cheang, to an official of the Legislative Assembly. Cheang is a senior staff member of the local branch of Bank of China (BOC).
Members of the grassroots People Power union including its Vice-Chairman Cheong Weng Fat (second from right) hand their petition to an official of the legislature yesterday. Photos: MPDG
Members of the Workers’ Self-Help Union including its Chairman Lei Kit Meng (second from left) hand their petition to an official outside Government Headquarters yesterday.
Members of the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, Caring for Macau and Macau Gaming Industry Frontline Workers (FMG), including well-known activists Ieong Man Teng (third from right) and Cloee Chao Sao Fong (fourth from right), hand the groups’ petition to an official outside Government Headquarters yesterday.
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