Stevedores in Hong Kong International Terminal have suffered in extreme long working hours and poor working conditions for several years. They have often work for 12 to 24 hours continuously, and even 72 hours during peak time.
Worst still, they are employed by outsourcing agents, which
expropriate wages and welfare of stevedores for profits of agents, while some of the agents are in fact high-ranking management personnel of HIT. Such tricks allow HIT, operator of the Container Terminal, to evade responsibility of compensation, retire fund, etc.

HIT and contractors often conceal industry accident involved in docks by imposing restriction on the
press and pay 'concealing fees' so outsiders cannot know the reasons of the accidents. Also, indepedent researchers cannot give any advice and recommendations to prevent further accidents.

The High Court announced a verdict that HIT can impose a temporary injunction against trade union involving in the strike. Such action revealed that right-protection action by labourers are blatantly suppressed by the capitalists, who are basking on financial power and loopholes of legal system.
According to Basic Law, residents in Hong Kong have freedom of industrial action. Also under existing laws, lawcourts cannot accept lawsuits against strikes. Such verdict is extreme contempt and violation to related laws!