香港教育工作者聯會 | |
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| Founded | 13 April 1975; 50 years ago (1975-04-13) |
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| Headquarters | 17/F, Bright Way Tower, 33 Mong Kok Road,Kowloon |
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| Members | 42,000 (as of 2021)[1] |
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| Affiliations | Pro-Beijing |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港教育工作者聯會 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港教育工作者联会 | ||||||||||||
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Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers (HKFEW) is apro-Beijingteachers union in Hong Kong.[2][3][4] Established in 1975, it is currently the largest teachers union in Hong Kong, after thepan-demoracticHong Kong Professional Teachers' Union was forced to disband in 2021. It was established to "rally teachers to adopt the position of 'loving Hong Kong and the Motherland'", as part of China'sunited front work in Hong Kong's educational sector.[4]
The trade union has some 42,000 members, as of 2021.[1] The incumbent president isWong Kwan-yu, also the supervisor ofHKFEW Wong Cho Bau Secondary School. Former presidents,Jasper Tsang andCheng Kai-nam, were also leaders ofThe Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party. Tsang and Cheng had built up relationships with pro-Beijing teachers and mobilized them to vote for DAB in legislative and district elections.[4] The HKFEW is said to play a crucial role in mobilizing pro-Beijing teachers to vote for like-minded candidates in the education functional constituency in thelegislative council election.
The HKFEW, through itsHong Kong Patriotic Education Services Centre [zh] which received an annual funding of HK$13 million from the government, produced a 34-page booklet titled 'Chinese Model National Conditions Teaching Manual [zh]' for schools which extolled the virtues of the mainland government under its one-party communist rule.[5]
In July 2022,Tang Fei, member of the HKFEW and also aLegislative Council member, argued that boys in school should have short hair because they supposedly "sweat more".[6]
| Election | Number of popular votes | % of popular votes | GC seats | FC seats | EC seats | Total seats | +/− | Position |
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| 2021 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 / 90 |  | 6th |
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