Winnie Yu (nurse)
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Winnie Yu Wai-ming (Chinese: 余慧明; born 28 May 1987) is a Hong Kong nurse and activist. She is the founder and chairwoman of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA), a labour union representing Hospital Authority staff. She played an instrumental role in the labour strike in February 2020 to demand full border closure in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong.
Biography
Yu was trained as a nurse in university. She became a nurse at a Hospital Authority public hospital after graduation.
In the
Following Chief Executive Carrie Lam's announcement to close four borders to the mainland, rather than a full closure demanded by the HAEA, the union launched a labour strike for five days between 3 and 7 February 2020.[5] Yu said that over 2,500 hospital workers participated in the strike on the first day, with about 60 to 70 percent of them being nurses.[5] The strike was attended by about 6,000 workers each day over the five days. In response, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that four more borders to be closed but refused to fully close the border.[6] She also called the medical workers who were on strike as "radical".[7] In response to the government's decision not to fully close the border, Yu shifted the union's demands, asking for adequate protection measures for HA medical workers and for the HA to rule out penalising staff who participated in the strike.[1] as well as On 7 February, the HAEA fell 2,000 votes short of the target it set to extend industrial action into middle of next week. In response, Yu announced an end to the five-day strike, though she said that ending the strike "doesn't mean [the union members] are giving up" with their demands.[8]
Yu participated in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries and received 2,493 votes, winning against incumbent lawmaker Joseph Lee in the Health Services functional constituency.[9]
On 6 January 2021, Yu was among 53 members of the pro-democratic camp who were
On 28 February, Yu was formally charged, along with 46 others, for subversion.
References
- ^ a b 黃蕊獻 (22 April 2020). "【專訪】從組織工會到走進議會 余慧明:我要真攬炒!". Inmediahk.net (in Chinese (Hong Kong)).
- ^ a b "【80後/余慧明】曾經是港豬 學日文計劃移民 今日希望盡了最大努力才再講End game". Ming Pao Weekly (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 17 April 2020.
- ^ "開拓工運新戰線 43個行業籌組新工會 「醫管局員工陣線」收千人申請". Citizen News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 24 December 2019.
- ^ Cheung, Elizabeth; Lok-kei, Sum; Han, Albert (29 January 2020). "Hong Kong's partial border closure amid Wuhan coronavirus crisis too little, too late, experts and health care workers' union say". South China Morning Post.
- ^ a b "Hospital workers union demands full border closure". The Standard. 3 February 2020.
- ^ "Why won't Carrie Lam shut Hong Kong's border with mainland China?". South China Morning Post. 5 February 2020.
- ^ "More unions plan to join striking hospital workers". RTHK. 5 February 2020.
- ^ "Coronavirus: Hong Kong medical workers vote down plans to extend their strike having earlier escalated their action by occupying key floors of Hospital Authority headquarters". South China Morning Post. 7 February 2020.
- ^ "Hong Kong democrat primaries in full: Young 'localist resistance camp' come out on top". Hong Kong Free Press. 16 July 2020.
- ^ "National security law: Hong Kong rounds up 53 pro-democracy activists". BBC News. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ Chau, Candice (8 January 2021). "'Hong Kong has entered a bitter winter,' says primaries organiser as 52 democrats in mass arrest bailed out". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Hong Kong charges 47 activists in largest use yet of new security law". BBC News. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Tears, fatigue and no-bathing gripes as bail marathon halted". The Standard. 3 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ "民主派初選47人案|余慧明獲高院批保釋 (12:44) - 20210728 - 港聞". 明報新聞網 - 即時新聞 instant news (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ "One of 47 pro-democracy suspects freed after months - RTHK". news.rthk.hk. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ "Subversion accused without overseas link posed no flight risk: Hong Kong judge". South China Morning Post. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ Chau, Candice (8 March 2022). "National security: ex-Hospital Authority union chief remanded in custody for violating bail terms". Hong Kong Free Press. Retrieved 9 March 2022.