Li Ka-Shing Port Workers Widen Protests After New Wage Offer
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Hundreds of port workers at Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong terminals surrounded his Cheung Kong Center headquarters in the city’s business district after rejecting a pay raise aimed at ending a three-week strike.
Contract workers of Li’s Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. were offered a 7 percent raise by their employers, the company said in an e-mail, compared with the workers’ demand for a 23 percent increase. Hong Kong government mediators have helped narrow the differences between employers and workers, Labor Secretary Matthew Cheung told reporters yesterday.