Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, delete tables, delete tables, delete, delete, half-eaten frying panels, soda and dairy river pour out and littered garbage boxes.
For him, the main goal of the part-time work was not over. This was a study for his main follow-up: to use art to better treat people in a city in a city that is one of the most widely income gaps in the world.
This project, after this project was openly called McDonald's Hong Kong last month, after calling on to restore paid food breaks for workers in local sales. Unidentified, Mr Ching pushes ahead – even shrinked in the city for even more widespread protest.
“Many people have accepted the failure to speak critical about their jobs. But the workers do not just have to earn a profit,” Mr Ching said in an interview. “We have the right to make ourselves public.”
In the last two decades, its campaigns in the world of art and activity, some online detergents, which carefully watched him, focusing on him and give him attention and bestowed.
For both the workplace and the museum guards, the stacked metro, which cleansed the subway, encouraged everything for everything.
The minimum wage of Hong Kong – about $ 5 for about $ 5 – Covers basic living expenses with difficulty. There are no collective bargaining laws and employers are Will not be submitted to collaborative importsThat's why it's relatively low.
Nonetheless, despite the long-term politically active, regularly joined the demonstrations to put pressure on the local government. People in Hong Kong are more common in such objections as they saw as an effort to make erode “High degree of autonomousY “Chinese leaders promised England after returning the former colony of 1997.
But the comprehension protests a year, sometimes fierce, caused by a Raid by Beijing In the 2020 and the application of many activists chilled and managed by National Security Laws Unions will collapse.
There have been some labor organizers in Hong Kong accused of violating the law They were convicted of a supporter of democracy and prison. Lee Cheuk Side, an old MP's lawyer and labor champion, arrested since 2021 and offered the government Grace to arrest Another such activist, Christopher Mung now living in the United Kingdom.
The director of the SOAS Chinese Institute in London Steve Tsang, the possibility of itself, the possibility of a potential threat to the Hong Kong government, especially if large companies are targeted by government agencies.
“Difficulty is not always clear how you are doing and how to be treated in Hong Kong, Said. “Therefore, people are more cautious about what they are able and cannot.”
Continues pressure: Wednesday offered the city deal This will strengthen the government to reject new unions on the basics of national security.
Mr Ching said his activity is always focused on the livelihood issues and does not think that it is wrong or risky about what he did.
During the covig pandemic, sometimes sometimes strained, and he said when the authorities reached something that could attract a crowd. The police searched for him and questioned, he said, he was written in a metro station with a metro station with a garbage bag on the cleaning shape.
The company, which operates in the subway, then increased the hourly payment for contract cleaners later.
Mr Ching has a master's degree in the fine art of China Hong Kong University and took part in exhibitions in exhibitions and last year New York“As a citizen of artist” collected boxes and other repeated processing items as part of an effort to realize. Some of his work – are located in museums collections, including videos, photos and sculptures M + in Hong Kong and Open eye gallery Liverpool, England. His “Secret Worker” project was Shortlist for the visible rewardA reward for works of art in 2019.
He has been teaching in Alma Mater and Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Alma Mater and Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Alma Mater and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “creative citizen“The course of students to be security guards and information about their experience. (Inspiration for the activity of society, when he came together to save a historical ferry bridge from demolition, he brought together to 2007.)
He divided the teaching of last August and increased $ 25,700 in the crowded donations, greats more time, fast food chains, China butcher shop and more time to spend more time in the Chinese butcher shop and Disneyland Hong Kong. Although he used his true name, he usually did not know his activity and said he was more interested in the vacancy.
Mr. Ching, who was married to a teenage daughter, sent entries as daily Instagram and Facebook. To show the recurrent hardwork during a typical change, Followed the number of steps and adjusted its images by taking endless rows of semi-discharged cups.
Mr Ching said that McDonald's learning was involved in the study, because customers from all walks of life brought him to Hong Kong Flair using it as a utility. In the former branch in the middle-level neighborhood of Tai PO, older regular mugs, newspapers and novels, each time, they are very hot water, and they put the places in themselves.
Mr Ching, like him, McDonald's Hong Kong, Randy Lai's General Director Randy Lai, worked as a lower-level worker for several months. Brought this experience in an open letter for him Hong Kong has been published in Broadsheet Pao in January.
“You need to know that without eating time, countless colleagues return to work after a hasty meal or pay their time.”
Fired during the week. Representatives for a company, a Chinese private capital companyDid not meet the wishes of the New York Times for comments. Press Secretary of a McDonald reported to local media This Mr Ching leaked internal operations and commercial data and said he was advised. Mr Ching said that these allegations share their research on workplace only.
Some observers say Mr. Ching's ambitions of Mr. Ching was less focused on the work. Wong Wai Yin, an artist in Hong Kong, did a doctor doctor. Dissertation in Mr Ching, sometimes it was difficult to understand their goals in McDonald's – until the fire.
“Ketchup packages and selfies were very much,” said Mrs. Wong.
Wan Pak Kin, Catering and Hotels Industry Workers' General Association, Mr Ching's tactics balanced the tactics of traditional labor units in a harsher approach. “He knows to find a middle place between praise and criticism,” said Mr. Wan. “He is investigating the connections and closures between their colleagues. It is part of society.”
This month, Mr. Ching, Mr Wan and other three other organizations representing labor and environmental groups, said they would form a coalition called Alyans for McDonald's. At a press conference in McDonald's party hats, the organizers said they hoped to pay attention to both employees and more public proposals of employees.
Mr Ching said he plans to spend more time on the campaign for small and meaningful changes to the frontline and plan to strengthen relations between employees. “I want the revolution to be in our daily work,” he said.