This article explores views on the future for the trade unions' legal framework in the new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. Key players in industrial relations were interviewed at the time of the transition and differing views on possible changes in the trade unions' framework and its enforcement and on questions of trade union autonomy and control were elicited. Interviewees' views were related to their expected relationship to tbe incoming administration. The article concludes by considering the effect of those legal changes relevant to trade unions that have taken place in the region since the transition.
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