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Over the summer, a rash of suicides and strikes hit factories in southern China as workers protested against labor conditions. Rather than cracking down, factory bosses have responded to the protests by increasing salaries and improving working conditions.
Word of the better conditions has (…)
A series of conflicts and strikes have affected a large number of manufacturing plants in China since May and June 2010. In a country whose labour force is the largest in the world (estimated at about 300 million people) and which represents a huge market, labour disputes are quite frequent, (…)
Paul Jay: In China in June, leaders of the Chinese Communist Party said that it’s time for workers’ wages to go up. And there’s been a lot of discussion about whether China’s actually restructuring its economy to try to boost domestic demand. Certainly in what leaders say in other parts of the (…)
One of the most interesting dimensions of the recent strikes at three Honda auto components factories in the Pearl River Delta region has been workers’ clearly articulated demand for their enterprise unions to be elected by and accountable to workers. Their demands are uncommon, but not (…)
The ACFTU has a herculean task ahead if it wants to fulfill its assigned role of representing workers or, if it falls short of this mission, to at least be able to maintain social stability. To do away with the “fake unions”, the local trade union offices should be put under the jurisdiction of (…)
For the protection of workers’ rights and the right to democratic election of worker representatives, the workers of Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co. Ltd has stopped work for nearly half a month. During the stoppage of work, we received support from both the domestic and international (…)
The suicides at Foxconn and the strike at Honda’s components factory in Foshan have focused almost unprecedented international media attention on the plight of China’s workers. Commentators have asked why are workers taking such drastic action, are we seeing an upsurge in worker activism, and (…)
SHANGHAI — The cost of doing business in China is going up.
Coastal factories are increasing hourly payments to workers. Local governments are raising minimum wage standards. And if China allows its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate against the United States dollar later this year, as (…)
To all those who are concerned with workers in China:
On May 17, 2010, more than 1800 Honda workers in Foshan decided to go on strike. By May 27, all four Honda plants in China had stopped production.
Why did the workers go on strike? It is because their wages are too low and their (…)
This morning, the media, at home and abroad, reports on the negotiation between Honda management and the workers. The Cajing website quoted Professor Chang Kai from the School of Labor and Human Resources of the Chinese People’s University, and who is appointed by the workers’ delegates as their (…)
Striking Honda workers in Foshan, Guangdong Province have shown incredible courage and determination in their fight to demand higher wages. Workers have now been on strike for more than two weeks. Strike action initially began on May 17th when more than 100 workers went on strike. This was (…)
Written by The Delegation of Representatives of the Striking Workers for Negotiation
Workers in Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd. of Foshan City started to resume work on a conditional basis in the evening of 1 June. The resumption of work was a result of the mediation of members of the (…)
To brothers and sisters from trade unions, civil society and friends who are concerned about the labor situation in China:
Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd. located in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, has entered the 14th day of its strike. Of the many strikes by Chinese workers in (…)
It’s been dubbed the “suicide express” by Chinese media. Twelve workers, all between 18 and 24 years old, have committed suicide, at the production facilities of Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwan-owned enterprise based in Shenzhen, southern China.
Foxconn is a key supplier to various leading (…)
More than 1,000 workers from a Beijing Hyundai supplier company went on strike Friday afternoon to demand higher wages. By 5 pm Saturday, some workers had resumed working following negotiations.
On May 21, workers from the Beijing Xingyuche Technology Company in Pinggu district (which makes (…)
A post 80’s generation China Honda worker speaks out
Honda is a Fortune 500 company! It earned more than 4 billion yuan last year! It earned more than a billion the year before that! Let’s compare Honda with other businesses. But none can really compare with it! This is a Fortune 500 company (…)
A worker at the massive electronics firm Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant is said to have just committed suicide by jumping from the roof of a building. This incident is a tragedy by itself, but it is made more so by the fact that this is the ninth time that a Foxconn employee has killed himself or (…)
Introduction to the current issue of China Labor News Translations.
Since the second half of the 1990s, China has been through waves of privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in a drive to pave the way for a market economy. Previous issues of CLNT have focused on state workers’ (…)
A riot broke out amongst workers at Maersk Container Industry Dongguan Ltd in January 2008. The fierce action caused great damage to the Maersk factory buildings. In May, the workers initiated another strike to protest against management continually increasing the intensity of work. 29 workers (…)
The statement above is a summary of the case prepared by the Hong Kong Group Globalisation Monitor March 2009 with a few English details added by IHLO for clarification. IHLO April 2009.
Since September 2008, Gold Peak (GP) subsidiary, JetPower, has been moving machinery and reducing upper (…)
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