梁富華

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Leung Fu-wah is a Hong Kong trade unionist. Born in Hong Kong on 21 October 1951, he became a core figure in the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), founded in 1948 and the largest trade union federation in Hong Kong, and served as one of its vice-chairmen. He graduated from Jinan University in Guangzhou and obtained a certificate in social studies from the University of Hong Kong. A long-time advocate for employees' rights, he represented workers on the Labour Advisory Board from 1991 to 2000 and held posts within the FTU including director of its occupational safety and health committee, director of its rights and benefits committee and chairman of its affiliates policy research committee. In the 2000 Legislative Council election he won the Labour functional constituency, a three-seat constituency elected by trade union and employee voters, and served in the Second Legislative Council from October 2000 to September 2004. In the chamber he focused on labour rights, raising concerns over the benefits of government employees on contract, the verification of MPF contributions and the offsetting of severance payments against MPF accruals, and he opposed the importation of labour. He also proposed developing a cycling industry to create jobs and campaigned for a statutory minimum wage. He received the Medal of Honour in 1998, was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1999 and received the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2011. He did not stand in the 2004 election and continued to serve in the FTU and the labour movement.