Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union
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| Full name | Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union |
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| Native name | 香港教育專業人員協會 |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Members | 90,000 |
| Head union | Confederation of Trade Unions |
| Key people | President Fung Wai-wah |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港教育專業人員協會 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Hēung góng gaau yuhk jyūn yihp yàhn yùhn hip wuih |
| Jyutping | Hoeng1 gong2 gaau3 juk6 zyun1 jip6 jan4 jyun4 hip3 wui6*2 |
The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU) (Chinese: 香港教育專業人員協會) is a pro-democracy trade union, professional association and social concern group in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest teachers' organisation in Hong Kong with more than 90,000 teachers, 90% of the education practitioners in Hong Kong as its members.
The PTU is known to be political liberal, socially activist, and vehement in defence of the legal rights of teachers. It aims at uniting co-workers, protecting their rights and providing them with various welfare services and also operates a very successful cooperative department store. It strives to improve education quality through promoting of teachers' professionalism, and through advocating of education policies, which ensure an environment for every student to learn and grow with sufficient assistance and care. It actively participates in various social actions for the justice, well-being and democratic rights of the people in Hong Kong and China.
The highest authority of the PTU is the Annual General Meeting, which is attended by members' representatives, who are elected by teachers in every school, at a ratio of 1 representative to 15 members. When the Annual General Meeting is not in session, a 39-member Executive Committee runs the day-to-day affairs of the union. A 19-member Senate monitors the Executive Committee's work. Both the Executive Committee and the Senate are directly elected by all members of the union in the form of one-person-one-vote. All votes are confidential. At present, the President of the union is Mr. Fung Wai-wah, and the Chairman of the Senate is Mr. Pun Tin-chi.
The PTU was founded in response to the cut in salaries of certificated teachers by 15% in 1973. It launched the certificated teachers' strike and became an influential force in Hong Kong.
During the 1970s the PTU repeatedly challenged the government and even forced it to make concessions, in events like the Golden Jubilee Secondary School Incident in 1978 which was triggered by alleged corruption in a secondary school. The school was shut down by the Education Department after 900 students and teachers organised a sit-in to protest financial irregularities. 16 of the school's teachers were dismissed. Through the efforts of the HKPTU, all the teachers won reinstatement. Through this incident, the PTU grew its importance as the most powerful pressure group in Hong Kong.
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