林偉江

English

Lam Wai-kong is a Hong Kong trade unionist and vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and represents the labour functional constituency in the eighth-term Legislative Council. He has been an appointed member of the Wan Chai District Council since 2024 for a term running to 2027, and has long served at both union and district levels, following issues such as labour rights, employment and transport planning. In the 2025 Legislative Council election five candidates contested three labour seats, and he was elected along with Chau Siu-chung and Lee Kwong-yu, taking office on 1 January 2026. Since then he has said the government must address industries with high unemployment by arranging emergency support schemes, holding focused training and job fairs, and if necessary considering a pause in the importation of labour so as to protect local jobs. He also believes that, with the government's finances improving, civil servants' pay should be adjusted under the established annual mechanism in order to attract and motivate talent, and he has spoken on livelihood measures such as reducing medical fees and extending the newborn baby allowance. On district transport he joined the federation's Hong Kong Island West team in issuing a planning proposal for the western section of the South Island Line, setting out views on future railway and community development in the Southern and Central and Western districts, and calling on the government to publish realistic passenger capacity figures for the future smart rail system so that route and station designs can be assessed. As a vice-chairman of the federation he also promotes employment training and district livelihood work and takes part in following up labour issues such as the minimum wage and occupational safety.