Striking Hong Kong dockworkers. Photo by the South China Morning Post.
Striking dockers vowed action with the effect of a “nuclear bomb” if talks with contractors in the dispute over their pay and conditions break down today.
The threat came as a government source said the administration had set an objective of settling the dispute this week.
No details were given of the planned action, but there were suggestions that the Cheung Kong Center in Central, headquarters of Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing, had been considered as a target.
A source with knowledge of the strikers’ planning said the organiser, the Confederation of Trade Unions, had two to three plans and would immediately go ahead with one today if talks with contractors Everbest Port Services and Global Stevedoring Service failed.