Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre
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Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre
街坊工友服務處 |
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| Chairman | Wo Wai-chung |
| Vice-Chairman | Leung Yiu-chung |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | 23B Mei Wan Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| Legislative Council |
1 / 70
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| District Councils |
5 / 458
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| Traditional Chinese | 街坊工友服務處 | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 街工 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Gāai fōng gūng yáuh fuhk mouh syu |
| Jyutping | Gaai1 fong1 gung1 jau5 fuk6 mou6 syu3 |
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Gāai gūng |
| Jyutping | Gaai1 gung1 |
The Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC; Chinese: 街坊工友服務處) is a pro-democracy political group in Hong Kong, holding one seat in the Legislative Council from 1995 to 1997, and since 1998. It was founded in 1985, with its roots in the New Youth Study Society founded in 1979. Politically it is identified as belonging to the pan-democracy camp. The sole member representing the NWSC in the Legislative Council is Leung Yiu Chung. It also holds 5 seats in the Kwai Tsing District Council.
The NWSC was founded in 1985 in the root of the New Youth Study Society in Tsuen Wan which was a social group formed by activist Lau Shan-ching and other graduates from the University of Hong Kong aiming at providing education for workers and raise their social consciousness. However, as the government set up night courses for adults in the early 1980s, the number of workers attended to the society's courses dropped. The lecturers and students in the society decided to participate in the newly established District Board elections as the government introduced constitutional reform.
Leung Yiu-chung, lecturer of the New Youth Study Society, led the Kwai Chung residents who were affected by concrete spalling and seepage in their public housing estates to demand solutions from the Housing Department. It later turned out to be a full-scale "26 Blocks Scandal". Leung was subsequently elected in the Kwai Chung Central constituency in the first District Board elections in 1985 and founded the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre.
In 1987 and 1988, the NWSC involved in the labour strikes in the Kwai Chung industrial area, including foreign electric companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Seiko and Philips.
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