After last month when it was announced that 2017 would be the first year of restrictive elections for the highest office, Chief Executive, Beijing students walked out of class in protest. After police began to forcefully subdue protestors, the Hong Kong Professional Teachers? Union joined the fight. A local coca-cola distributor also had close to one hundred delivery workers join the protests.
See "Hong Kong Trade Unions Call for Strikes as Democracy Protests Swell", David Stout, TIME, September 29, 2014