Workers at a lift maintenance company went on strike yesterday and vowed to continue it today.
About 70 repair workers at ThyssenKrupp Elevator said they would refuse emergency jobs unless their demands for a pay rise and shorter working hours were met.
The company carries out maintenance work at 600 buildings.
'Our salary is simply too low,' said workers' representative Mok Yun-chuen. 'We will fight until the company answers our [demands]. We just want to be treated fairly.'
The 70 workers, who represent about 80 per cent of the company's frontline employees, are paid HK$7,000 a month. Mok said that at similar companies, the average salary was HK$8,500.
Workers said the firm, which covers about 10 per cent of the city's lift maintenance work, was short of staff.
'Many of us are required to work overtime regularly,' Mok said. 'We have to carry out most of the work alone, while under standard procedures two workers should be deployed.'
