Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by AMRC, Globalization Monitor, HKCTU
Negotiate proper compensation with all JetPower workers affected by Cadmium and Develop a package of adequate medical treatment and follow-up arrangements for these workers
GP Demo
To: Mr. Victor Lo Chong Wing Chairperson, Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd.
From September 2008 onwards, (…)
Government Should Change Discriminatory Laws and Practices
(New York) - The Chinese government should ensure that the rights of China’s estimated 150 million migrant workers are not sacrificed as Beijing copes with the ongoing global economic crisis, Human Rights Watch said today.
Migrant (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
The global financial crisis has begun to take its toll in China. China’s exports have been declining rapidly, and in Guangdong province where the export processing zones house 20 million workers, tens of thousands of migrant workers have been sacked and have returned to their home villages. (…)
After 2 years of effort the Ole Wolff Yantai Workplace Union won a partial victory against its employer, the Ole Wolff Electronics Yantai, a subsidiary of the Ole Wolff Electronics A/S, Denmark. In early November 2008, the company finally agreed to compensate the six unlawfully dismissed (…)
, by IHLO
In the past month or so there has been a rise in the number of factory closures in the Pearl River Delta. Although the area has seen thousands of low-end, low profit enterprises leave in the past six to 12 months, the financial crisis has stepped up momentum. Many workers – generally rural (…)
, by IHLO
This article looks at a workers initiative in Shenzhen which aimed to lobby the local authorities to increase the minimum wage standards for 2006. It provides a good example of the growing number of well organized, pro-active and spontaneous movements formed by the workers themselves in response (…)
, by YAU Chui-yan
As she does often, May Wong Yuet-may has been to the mainland recently to see some “friends”. She passes through many cities on her travels, but she has noticed a definite trend in the past few weeks: the Shenzhen station is crowded with migrant workers.
“So many migrant workers are going to (…)
, by AFP
SHANGHAI — Nearly 1,000 workers staged a rare sit-in protest outside a Shanghai factory Tuesday in the latest sign of strain in China’s manufacturing industry, which has been hit hard by the economic crisis.
The workers were protesting because managers at the computer and telecoms equipment (…)
, by WANG Jian
In mainland China, self-organized grass root labor unions, catalyzed by workers’ resistance, are extremely rare. Fortunately, such a labor union was established at Ole Wolff Electronics China in Yantai city, Shandong Province two years ago. However, it now finds itself pressed between the hammer (…)
, by VANDAELE John
China is growing, but do the Chinese that produce our clothes, shoes, mobiles and laptops profit from it? Is it true, in other words, that globalization gives chances to the labouring people in developing countries? In september 2008, just before the onset of crisis, John Vandaele went to the (…)
, by CNLT
The trade unions in Chinese Wal-Mart stores are often dismissed as hollow shells set up by the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) without workers’ involvement. But through monitoring Chinese media and online blog discussions among Chinese Wal-Mart employees, CLNT has found workers who (…)
, by CHENG Eva
On November 20, two unidentified thugs use butchers’ cleavers to brutally attack Huang Qingnan, an organiser of the Dagongzhe Centre in the south China foreign capital haven of Shenzhen, leaving him seriously injured. The assault came on the heels of the October 11 and November 14 attempts to (…)
, by MEI FONG
BEIJING — Protests by Hong Kong groups over the stabbing of a labor leader in Shenzhen reflect how tensions are bubbling up in southern China ahead of Jan. 1, when the country’s new labor laws take effect.
China’s nascent labor movement has been growing more vocal as the nation experiences a (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
In the recent weeks, we, a group of Hong Kong groups and unions who cover labour issues in China have learned of a series of violent attacks on a labour group and its legal person in Shenzhen. We are very upset, concerned and enraged about the recent development.
The Shenzhen Dagongzhe Centre (…)
, by Labor Notes
Shenzhen labor activist Huang Qingnan was stabbed November 21. This is not the first attack on Huang. In 1999, then a rank-and-file activist in a food factory, Huang was permanently disfigured when acid was thrown on his face while he slept in the factory dormitory.
Workers’ rights advocates (…)
, by CHENG Eva
On August 22, more than 5000 workers at a mobile phone component factory in Shenzhen, southern China, struck against their bosses’ attempt to increase their work hours without extra pay.
Earlier in the month, 800 miners struck for at least six days in the Tanjiashan coalmine in Hubei Province (…)
, by CHENG Eva
During the last week of August, more than 3000 workers at the state-controlled Chengdu Power company went on strike at their diesel engines producing plant in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and protested at the city government offices. The action was a bid to pressure the factory management to (…)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
US-based corporations are opposing legislation to give Chinese workers new labor rights.
US-based global corporations like Wal-Mart, Google, UPS, Microsoft, Nike, AT&T, and Intel, acting through US business organizations like the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (…)
, by CHAN Anita
Surprise, surprise, it is the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the trade union notorious throughout the world for being “useless”, that has taken on Wal-Mart and succeeded in setting up workplace union branches at twenty-two Wal-Mart supercenters in China within four weeks. This has (…)
, by WEIL Robert
Introduction
This article is based primarily on a series of meetings with workers, peasants, organizers, and leftist activists that I participated in during the summer of 2004, together with Alex Day and another student of Chinese affairs. It is part of a longer paper that is being published (…)
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