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Yau Yiu-shing, MH, is an appointed member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council in Hong Kong who declares his occupation as a trade union worker, affiliated with the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU). He is a vice-chairman of the FTU and director of its Rights Committee, and has long worked on labour rights and the protection of grassroots employees. For example, he met representatives of the Hong Kong Couriers' Association together with FTU president Wong Kwok and vice-chairman Lam Wai-kong to discuss couriers' lack of income, labour and MPF protection, and he has spoken at FTU briefings on the abolition of MPF offsetting, explaining the points employees should note under the new arrangements. On 1 January 2024 he was appointed by the Chief Executive to the 7th District Council (2024-2027) for Wong Tai Sin and was awarded the Medal of Honour. On the council he is a member of the District Facilities and Works Committee, the Community Involvement, Culture and Recreation Committee and the Traffic and Transport Committee. His ward office is in Kai Sin House, Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate, Kowloon, serving residents in the Wong Tai Sin area. The current Wong Tai Sin District Council has twenty members, made up of geographical constituency members, District Committees constituency members and appointed members.