| Cheuk Fu Ming |
The Government forecasts that by 2016, Hong Kong’s container traffic will require processing one container every second. As a container truck driver (or a “Carlo” in their local slang) himself for more than two decades, Cheuk understands too well that the success of Hong Kong’s logistics industry was due to the hard work of all the employees in the container transportation industry. And yet because of their long working hours, his fellow workers could not find the time to fight for their workers’ rights, therefore the union had to voice out for them.
“In the 1970s, the Vietnam War was going on. An American company nearby had to arrange bodies of American soldiers who died at war to be shipped back home. The bodies were stored in refrigerated containers, and transhipped via Hong Kong for the United States. When the supervisors told me that the containers held the bodies of dead American soldiers, I can remember my shock and it is still vivid when I look back on it.”
