Collective protests by China’s workers are typically small-scale, spontaneous actions designed both to expose and resist employer abuses and violations of basic labour rights such as the non-payment of wages. The large-scale strikes and protests by factory workers that highlighted labour (...)
Friday 28 June marks the 100th day since labour activists Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing were detained by the authorities in Guangzhou. Along with their colleague Yang Zhengjun who was detained earlier, they are being held under “residential surveillance at a designated location” (指定居所监视居住) with (...)
In March 2019, a project called ‘996.ICU’ suddenly became a hot issue on GitHub, and subsequently sparked aroused attention on China’s social networks. ‘996’ means working from 9am to 9pm, and a week has 6 working days with this schedule; ‘ICU’ is the abbreviation of intensive care unit. Obviously, (...)
Please find the full English report of the FAW- Volkswagen in Changchun China.
The report is translated directly from Chinese to English by GM. It is a successful experience of international solidarity supporting Chinese labour activists and we hope everybody would be inspired by the good (...)
The Jasic labour struggle in the late July 2018 had triggered a series of crackdowns on labour movement in China. The suppression is already beyond the Jasic incident itself. Some labor activists who did not involve in the Jasic struggle and media editors who concern workers’ rights were also (...)
Some 100 Chinese workers suffering from a work-related disease have signed a petition demanding the release of three prominent activists in southern China amid a crackdown on labour activism.
Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing, editors of a labour rights news site that reported on the workers’ cases, (...)
Act NOW! A LabourStart campaignn in partnership with the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the only independent and democratic trade union federation on Chinese soil, and Globalization Monitor, a Hong Kong-based NGO that monitors the adverse effects of capitalist globalization on workers (...)
Workers in China have long been deprived of their freedom of association and the right to organize independent trade unions. According to labour laws in China, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), which is effectively a Communist Party subordinate, has the statutory authority to (...)
On July 27, 2018, police arrested thirty protesters in Shenzhen, including 29 Jasic Technology workers and a university student. Shen Mengyu, the recent graduate who stood in solidarity with the protesting workers, has since been completely cut off from communications. More recently, the (...)
• Police make arrests in Hunan and Guangdong provinces on Sunday evening in what appears to be coordinated crackdown
• They are accused of ‘disturbing public order’
At least five Chinese activists have been arrested by police for allegedly “disturbing public order” in what appears to be a (...)
Last July, 89 workers at the Jasic company in Shenzhen applied to found a workplace union but their application was refused and later their leaders were temporarily arrested. This escalated the confrontation between workers and the local authority, and several dozen Maoist students from all (...)
In 2018, there was one labour dispute that stood out more than any other ; the campaign by workers at Jasic Technology in Shenzhen to set up a factory trade union.
The Jasic dispute was, at its outset, fairly typical of the thousands of collective labour protests that occurred across the whole (...)
The canteens at Peking University offer dishes from China’s many culinary traditions: vegetable noodles spiced with chilli and Sichuan peppercorns, whole carp braised in soy sauce, fried chicken wings, pork dumplings, hot-sour soup with ho-fun, buns warm from the steamer, pancakes warm from the (...)
Protesters describe themselves as fervent Marxists and Maoists, presenting a unique problem for Communist party
At least 10 young Chinese labour protesters have been detained as part of a crackdown targeting a rise in student activism at elite universities across the country.
Groups of (...)
Yue Xin was detained along with about 50 other activists, many of them young Marxists, who joined campaign for union rights at Jasic Technology
A young rights activist who called for China’s top university to be transparent about its investigation of a rape case and joined a labour dispute in (...)
After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial (...)
In July this year, 89 workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd demanded the right to set up a workplace union. In the past decade there has been an explosion of strikes in Shenzhen, and this dispute is one of the many where workers have demanded better working conditions, owed wages, (...)
Activists in Shenzhen last month protested in support of workers’ rights. Their banners call for the punishment of corrupt police officials and the release of detained factory workers.
HUIZHOU, China — They were exactly what China’s best universities were supposed to produce: young men and women (...)
More than 50 students and workers were arrested this summer during a weeks-long struggle to form a union at Jasic Technology in Shenzhen, China. A group of workers in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen tried something very rare this summer—they attempted to follow the legal process to set up a (...)
Please join us in signing and sharing this petition to call for the immediate release of the workers and their student allies unjustly arrested for union organising and solidarity actions at Shenzhen Jasic Technology in China since July 2018.
[ESSF has signed the petition. We shall update the (...)
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