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There must be few countries where public servants are per mitted to engage in trade union activites outside their own public service associations. But Papua- New Guinea is one of them — according to a statement by the NG Highland Farmers and Settlers' Association.
The association views with con cern the degree to which Ad ministration servants (i.e., native public servants) are engaged as office holders, organisers or members of industrial unions having nothing to do with the Public Service at all. Nearly every industrial union in the territory, the association believes, has office-bearers employed in Administration departments and this does not include the members of the Department of Labour, who are in a special category.
It could lead to Administra tion servants, who should be neutral and above such disputes, organising or supporting a strike in industry when they, as em ployees of government, would not suffer any loss of money or em ployment.
The HSFA does not like it; nor do a lot of other people.