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China’s economic reforms started exactly forty years ago. Labour scholars today are debating the extent to which labour relations and the labour movement in China have changed, and where they may be heading. Positions are polarized between pessimists who emphasise the structural power of the (…)
In 2016, workers at four Walmart China stores started their strike and attracted wide concern inside and outside of the country. On 1 July, workers from one of Walmart China’s stores in Nanchang in Jiangxi started a strike that quickly spread to a second store in Nanchang, and then to stores in (…)
Shenzhen traffic police are unilaterally extending their remit to regulate the employment conditions of the city’s food delivery workers.
The municipal traffic police announced a package of stringent regulations earlier this month targeted at food delivery bike riders who disregard traffic (…)
A thousand workers, nearly 70 percent of who are women, in a luxury handbag factory in Guangzhou won social insurance and housing provident fund contributions after a nine-day strike. They had called on the management to engage in collective bargaining in early March and ever since then, there (…)
Apple released their annual supplier responsibility report on March 8th. But the extent to which the company has enforced its supplier responsibility standards in 2017 remains dubious. Every year, the report cherry picks information that puts Apple in a good light, while intentionally (…)
The law hasn’t stopped the trend towards temporary or ´self-employed’ contracts. But it has become much easier for workers to appeal to labour tribunals
The Chinese government had high hopes for the Labour Contract Law when it went into effect ten years ago on 1 January 2008. It was heralded (…)
Demonstrators condemn evictions and demolitions carried out by authorities which have seen thousands lose their homes.
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of the Chinese capital to pillory Beijing’s crackdown on migrant communities with chants of “violent evictions violate human (…)
On November 18, 2017, a fire broke out in Daxing District of Beijing, a suburb densely populated by low-income migrant workers. The fire killed at least 19 people and injured 8. After the fire, in the name of “improving the cityscape”, the Beijing Municipal Government embarked on an illegal (…)
In China, in Hong Kong and everywhere in the world, “workers are no slaves!”
Statement of the International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
CSP Conlutas (Brasil) and Union syndicale Solidaires (France), on behalf of The International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles, (…)
On November 18, a fire killed 19 people in Jiugong township, in the Daxing District of Beijing. A few days later, the city government launched a mass clearance operation of “low-end people” around the city’s suburban belt. Within a week, probably more than 200,000 of the “migrant low-end (…)
Due to the new FNGO law blocking labor right groups to receive financial support from foreign donors and Wal-Mart China’s fiercely attacks on labor rights in its shops in China, WCWA decided to use crowd fund online campaign to raise funds to support the nationwide Wal-Mart employees’ legal (…)
China’s campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to wring more profit from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
On November 18, a fire on the outskirts of Beijing killed nineteen people, including eight children. Skyrocketing rent in the urban core has pushed (…)
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 (…)
The report, “This way to distorsion” exposes the hypocrisy of Uniqlo’s claims of commitment to ‘corporate social responsibility’ and ‘making the world a better place’.
The report exposes the hypocrisy of UNIQLO’s commitment to ‘corporate social responsibility’ and ‘making the world a better (…)
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 (…)
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