In mid-November 2016, Coca-Cola announced to sell its bottling assets in China to Swire Pacific Ltd and China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO). Under the realignment, Coca-Cola will cease to run bottling operations in mainland China. Workers in its plants in Jilin, (...)
2016 Year-end Report Wal-mart China Employees’ Association December 31st 2016
Dear Wal-Mart colleagues: Dear friends supporting Wal-Mart colleagues’ rights:
Preface
2016 is a very extraordinary year since the establishment of the Wal-Mart China Employees’ Association (hereinafter referred to as “Association”) in 2014. For the first half of the year, the Association and the Wal-Mart colleagues are close and united to launch a nationwide massive resistance campaign against the Integrated (...)
China has experienced an increasing number of strikes in the last few years. Among them, the Walmart workers’ protest that is now in its third month marks a new stage in post-Mao labour history. The protest exhibits a number of special features. First, while all of the strikes so far have taken (...)
Editor’s Note: Beginning from the middle of May 2016, Walmart China began to impose an “integrated working hours” system across all its branches in China. This amounts to imposing flexible workings hour on employees and has drawn wide spread opposition from them. From 1st July, Walmart employees (...)
SHENZHEN, China — In a one-man war room in his apartment, a laid-off Walmart employee named Wang Shishu was tapping out a message on his phone to a group of workers and plotting his next move.
Over the past few months, Mr. Wang, 56, has helped organize a national movement in China against (...)
Three Guangdong labour activists - Zeng Feiyang, Zhu Xiaomei, and Tang Huanxing, who were arrested by Chinese police on 3 December 2015 - will stand trial on charges of “gathering a crowd to disturb social order” on 26 - 28 September in the Panyu district court in Guangzhou. Meng Han, who was (...)
Tricky Footwork – Executive Summary
25/08/2016
Collected in interviews conducted in 2015 for this study, testimonies attest to the fact that labour law violations are still a common phenomenon in the Chinese leather and footwear industry. The people who work at the factories that supply (...)
Letter to Walmart China, by The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman (BRS)
This is the letter sent by The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman (BRS) to CEO of Walmart China, regarding to support Chinese Walmart workers’ demand on end its “Flexible Working Hour Scheduling”.
August 15, 2016
Mr. Dirk (...)
Guangdong labour activists Zeng Feiyang, Meng Han, Zhu Xiaomei and Tang Huanxing, who were arrested by Chinese police on 3rd December, 2015, were charged with “disturbing social order” by the People’s Procuratorate of Panyu District, Guangzhou Municipality in June and will be on trial in the near (...)
A key ingredient of China’s Post-Mao economic “miracle” is a labour regime entrenched in the export-oriented consumer manufacturing sector and premised on despotic exploitation, institutional discrimination and political exclusion of labour. It is built on the back of massive rural-to-urban (...)
AS CHINA’S ECONOMY slows down, it appears that worker discontent is growing and the regime is responding with sharper repression against the labor rights movement. The movement’s activities are legal under Chinese law, but always under threat when they become effective.
Under as a system where (...)
Multinational corporations are once again profiting off of China’s dismal labor conditions.
The shiny stainless steel kitchenware adorning our kitchens comes from some of China’s dirtiest factories, according to a new report by labor watchdogs.
The New York-based advocacy group China Labor (...)
A Chinese labour rights NGO targeted in a government crackdown last year has fought back by suing state news agency Xinhua for defamation.
Nanfeiyan Social Works Service Centre in Foshan, Guangdong submitted a civil case against Xinhua and journalist Zhou Wei to a local court on Monday, (...)
On December 3, the Chinese state detained more than 20 people associated with various labor solidarity organizations in Guangdong province. The detainees had been active in the labor movement there, providing various services and training. The government crackdown comes amid a rising tide of (...)
IndustriALL Global Union and other global unions demand the Chinese government to free detained labour activists in Chinese province Guangdong, stop suppressing labour and civil society organisations, and respect the fundamental labour rights enshrined in ILO Conventions.
IndustriALL has (...)
We appeal for your solidarity support to the Chinese labour activists in Guangdong Province facing suppression by the Chinese Government. Four Labour NGOS were suddenly “raided” by the Police since Dec 3 and 25 Labour NGOs staff and volunteers were detained and questioned by police. Six of them (...)
Government crackdown in Guangdong could backfire by crippling groups that channel worker anger into peaceful protest, say rights groups and analysts.
Chinese campaigners have called on Beijing to free five prominent labour activists after police launched an “unprecedented” crackdown designed to (...)
At least four labour activists remain in criminal detention following a recent crackdown on labour organisations.
From 3 - 5 December, labour NGOs based in Guangdong province were targeted in a harsh and unexpected wave of detentions. At least four labour NGOs have been targeted and 25 NGO (...)
Two prominent labour activists have been formally detained by the Guangzhou authorities for “gathering a crowd to disturb social order,” in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown on labour groups in the city.
The director of the Panyu Workers’ Centre, Zeng Feiyang, and activist Zhu Xiaomei (...)
More than 15 labour NGO activists have been detained by the Chinese police in Guangzhou, Foshan and Beijing, just a few were released. Labour NGOs have played a significant role in supporting the Chinese migrant workers to defend their legal rights and promoting the rule of law in the country. (...)
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