National security law: Hong Kong workers and students start voting in unofficial referendum proposing general strike, class boycotts

Hong Kong workers and students started voting on Saturday morning in an unofficial referendum that could pave way for a general strike against the national security law Beijing is drafting for Hong Kong.Thirty labour unions, including those representing civil servants and some formed during last year’s anti-government protests, have joined forces with student activists from the Hong Kong Secondary School Students Action Platform to stage the poll on whether to hold a mass walkout over the…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089902/national-security-law-hong-kong-workers-and-students-start