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Restore trust or we'll take you on, unions tell officials

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Unionists urged the government to use negotiations in the future to restore civil servants' trust or risk a fight.

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'If the government puts pressure on us and uses [yesterday's] judgment to handle future civil service pay and benefit problems, we will adopt an opposing approach to fight for our own interests,' Federation of Civil Service Unions president Leung Chau-ting said.

'I hope the government will modify its approach. It should negotiate with us, but not put pressure on us. It should be a rational government.'

Mr Leung said the Court of Final Appeal decision had put another dent in civil servants' morale.

But Secretary for the Civil Service Joseph Wong Wing-ping said he did not believe public servants would be affected.

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'I have full confidence that the whole civil service will continue to discharge their duties and serve the public,' he said.

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