Ng Chau-pei

{{Short description|President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions}}

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| office = President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions

| term_start = 16 April 2018

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| term_end2 = 16 April 2018

| predecessor2 = Wong Kwok-kin

| successor2 = Wong Kwok

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Stanley Ng Chau-pei (born February 1970) is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and trade unionist and the incumbent president and former chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the largest trade union in Hong Kong, and also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress. He is also as a member of the Legislative Council, representing the Hong Kong Island East constituency.

Biography

He was born in February 1970 of Fujianese origin. {{Citation needed span|He is educated at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.|date=November 2019}} He is a member of the Hong Kong Clerical and Professional Employees General Union and its president. Through the General Union he has become the core member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) after he joined in 1997 and became the chairman of the HKFTU. He is also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.{{cite web|url=http://www.nows.org.hk/cpng/?page_id=32|title=吳秋北|access-date=21 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821133903/http://www.nows.org.hk/cpng/?page_id=32|archive-date=21 August 2014|url-status=dead}}

In the 2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, he was elected through the Labour Subsector as the member of the HKFTU. The 800-member election committee was responsible for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election in which Beijing's favourite Donald Tsang won against Alan Leong from the pan-democracy camp.

He was appointed by the Hong Kong government to many public positions such as the Employee's Compensation Insurances Levies Management Board from 2013, the Labour Advisory Board from 2011, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Appeal Board from 2012 to 2014, the Standard Working Hours Committee since 2013.{{cite web|title=Ng, Chau Pei 吳秋北|work=Webb-site Who's Who|url=http://webb-site.com/dbpub/positions.asp?p=37414|access-date=21 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821140021/http://webb-site.com/dbpub/positions.asp?p=37414|archive-date=21 August 2014|url-status=dead}} He had also been a part-time member of the government's Central Policy Unit.

Ng was also one of initiators of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, a counter political alliance orchestrated by Beijing against the Occupy Central with Love and Peace launched by the pan-democrats to pressure Beijing to implement genuine democracy. He organised the anti-"Occupy" rally on 17 August 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadailyasia.com/hknews/2014-08/19/content_15157611.html|date=19 August 2014|title=Organizers hail success of anti-'Occupy' rally|first=Kahon|last=Chan}}

In April 2018, he succeeded Lam Shuk-yee to be the president of the FTU with Vice President Wong Kwok replaced him as the chairman.{{cite news|url=http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20180416/bkn-20180416155133771-0416_00822_001.html|title=政Whats噏：吳秋北膺工聯會會長黃國任理事長|date=2018-04-16|work=on.cc}}

Ng criticised the decision of Court of Final Appeal in September 2018 to free the group of 13 activists, who had each received jail sentences of up to 13 months from a lower court for unlawful assembly outside the Legislative Council Complex on 13 June 2014. "How could this be an act of loving and protecting young people? [The judges] are killing them!" Ng said as he accused the judges "sinners of society". Ng's remarks drew criticism from the pro-democrats, as well as Chief Executive Carrie Lam which said his comments as "unacceptable".{{cite news|date=11 September 2018|title=Pro-Beijing politician's remarks calling Hong Kong judges 'sinners of society' for freeing activists earn rebuke from city leader Carrie Lam|newspaper=South China Morning Post|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2163689/pro-beijing-politicians-remarks-calling-hong-kong-judges}}

During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Ng slammed Li Ka Shing with coarse Cantonese slang, depicted Li "cockroach" king in a post on social media.{{cite web |title=Now Stanley Ng Chau-pei who is Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress call Li Ka Shing "cockroach" |url=https://twitter.com/bcei8964/status/1173181875315068930 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125181226/https://twitter.com/bcei8964/status/1173181875315068930 |language=en |date=15 September 2019 |archivedate=25 November 2019 |access-date=25 November 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Hong Kong's 'Superman' Li Ka-shing comes under fire |url=https://www.ft.com/content/062b54b2-e0c4-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc |accessdate=25 November 2019 |work=Financial Times|url-access=subscription}} "Cockroach" is frequently being used by the police in Hong Kong as a slur for protestors.{{cite news |last1=Mahtani |first1=Shibani |last2=McLaughlin |first2=Timothy |title='Dogs' vs. 'cockroaches': On Hong Kong streets, insults take a dangerous turn |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dogs-vs-cockroaches-on-hong-kong-streets-language-of-genocide-rears-its-head/2019/11/04/32498608-fea7-11e9-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html |accessdate=25 November 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en}}

In March 2021, Apple Daily reported that Ng had criticized RTHK, stating that it was skewed and unprofessional.{{Cite web|title=Pro-Beijing lawmakers call for punishing RTHK over 'biased' report about lockdown ｜ Apple Daily|url=https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210317/BCEQZFPYPREFPOMLNGCPMIQ5NQ/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=Apple Daily 蘋果日報|language=zh-hk|archive-date=17 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210317125221/https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210317/BCEQZFPYPREFPOMLNGCPMIQ5NQ/|url-status=dead}}

In February 2022, after the Witman Hung birthday party controversy, Ng defended Hung and said that "His awareness about the epidemic situation was not strong enough, but he has faced public criticisms over it, and I do not see why he should step down from the NPC".{{Cite web|date=2022-02-04|title=Should host, other officials also take rap for Hong Kong 'partygate' scandal?|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3165750/hong-kong-top-official-caspar-tsui-got-boot-partygate|access-date=2022-02-04|website=South China Morning Post|language=en}}

In August 2023, after the High Court ruled that the Department of Justice could not ban the song Glory to Hong Kong, Ng said "The court's ruling has failed to fully consider the facts and legal points provided by the DoJ."{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Irene |title=Gov't launches bid to appeal court's rejection of ban on pro-democracy protest song 'Glory to Hong Kong' - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/07/breaking-hong-kong-to-appeal-courts-rejection-of-govt-application-to-ban-pro-democracy-protest-song-glory-to-hong-kong/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=hongkongfp.com |language=en-GB}}