李鳳英

English

Li Fung-ying, who holds the Silver Bauhinia Star and a justice of the peace appointment, is a Hong Kong trade unionist and a leading figure in the labour sector who represented the labour functional constituency in the Legislative Council. She has long been involved in the union movement and is a senior member of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions, or FLU, of which she has served as chairman. She was also a vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Electronics Employees General Union and spent many years fighting for the rights of grassroots workers; known as Sister Ying, she was the first woman from the labour sector to enter the Legislative Council. In public service she was appointed a member of the Employees Retraining Board from 1992 to 2000 and a member of the Commission on Poverty from 2012 to 2017, taking part in discussions on retraining, employment support and poverty policy and bringing front-line union observations into policy-making. In 2000 she was elected to the Legislative Council for the labour functional constituency, succeeding Lee Kai-ming, and was returned again, serving three terms until 2012. In the council she spoke strongly for labour, campaigning over the years for a statutory minimum wage, better paternity and maternity leave and stronger protection for employees, and was an important force in advancing workers' rights. She also followed women's employment, occupational safety and retirement protection. She did not seek re-election in 2012, and the seat passed to Poon Siu-ping.