Workers' Voices (new)

Construction

• Township government finally compensates family of labour contractor after suicide
   
• Unable to pay his workers, Sichuan labour contractor takes his own life
   
• When workers die in a village called Happiness
   
• Laid off construction worker fighting lone battle for the rule of law
   
• Railway bureau places injured worker on “temporary leave” for eight-years to cut costs
   
• Army veteran from Deng Xiaoping’s home town crippled in work accident
   
• Jailed labour contractor still fighting for his workers’ wages
   
• Migrant workers with pneumoconiosis return to Shenzhen in search of justice
   
• Safety first or wages first - A construction site dilemma
   
• Workers left without a cent as developer and construction company feud

Mining

• Fifteen minutes of fame. Three years of waiting
   
• Coal miner seeks justice after being tricked into signing away his rights
   
• Sichuan miners continue their fight despite setbacks
   
• Yunnan landslide highlights the devastation wrought by coal mining
   
• The missing link: Miner struggles to prove labour relationship with former boss
   
• Light at the end of the tunnel for stricken miners
   
• A sister’s search for the truth about her brother’s death at a Xinjiang coal mine
   
• Injured coal miner struggles for compensation
   
• Injured miner exemplifies the “informed disenchantment” of China’s workers seeking redress
   
• China Coal refuses any compensation after the death of long-serving employee
   
• Sichuan Miner left alone to Die in Poverty

Heavy industry

• Migrant worker in Nanjing cheated out of compensation and left to die
   
• Injured worker left on the scrapheap of state-owned enterprise reform
   
• Severely injured steel worker forced to wait four years for compensation
   
• Keeping the truth hidden: Steel plant refuses to acknowledge worker’s occupational disease
   
• Injured steel factory worker fights lone battle for compensation
   
• Arsenic and old lies: Chemical plant worker cheated out of compensation
   
• Engineer needs quantum leap to overcome employer intransigence
   
• Former steel workers battle industrial goliath
   
• Adding insult to injury: Workers denied justice and detained after self-mutilation protest
   
• Steel workers laid-off and rehired as temporary employees for lower pay
   
• Laid-off mill workers given just 235 yuan a month to live on
   
• Solidarity from the sidelines: Union passivity allows a steel strike to escalate
   
• Oil workers in Xinjiang left out in the cold

Manufacturing

• Workplace accident illustrates gap between the law on paper and in the factory
   
• Local trade union indifferent to workers’ struggle at Shenzhen factory
   
• One strike, two workers, two very different stories
   
• Painted into a corner: Factory worker left with nowhere to go after contracting anaemia
   
• The company vanishes: workers chase shadows in search for wage arrears
   
• Learning the hard way about trade union elections
   
• Standing up to the bullies – injured migrant worker goes to court
   
• Workers file criminal prosecution against boss who made them sick
   
• A 12-year struggle to obtain work-related injury compensation
   
• The hard road from Sichuan to Guangdong
   
• Corruption and collusion deny battery factory workers proper compensation for lead-poisoning
   
• The strike that ignited China’s summer of worker protests
   
• Suffocated by the system
   
• Tobacco plant workers fighting for equal pay stuck in legal limbo
   
• Migrant workers cheated out of 230,000 yuan – harassed and beaten by thugs
   
• Shaanxi workers seek to reclaim stolen pension fund contributions
   
• Workers forced to buy worthless shares in restructured state-owned enterprise
   
• Legal loophole leaves retirees with no medical insurance
   
• More Work for Less Gain

Transport

• Local government drivers in Xinjiang demand proper employment contracts
   
• Chinese bus drivers in Singapore tossed aside after strike
   
• Taken for a ride: Guangdong bus drivers stage strike as union sides with boss
   
• Postal worker denied compensation because government official wanted to save face
   
• Railway worker badly injured preventing a major accident has to fight for compensation
   
• Heilongjiang railway worker takes on his own trade union
   
• Chengdu bus drivers strike for higher pay – union sits on the fence
   
• Railway workers “retired” on medical grounds fight back
   
• Company boss and the courts add insult to injury for migrant worker in Wuhan
   
• A Family Seeks Compensation for the Death of their Son

Agriculture

• A four decade-long struggle for compensation in rural Hubei
   
• Mongolian herders lose land and livelihood in state farm sell-off
   
• Model Worker fights the system in pursuit of retirement benefits

Clerical/managerial/sales

• Paralysed worker stages bed protest after employer ignores pleas for compensation
   
• Taking a stand: Trade union chairman fights back against Walmart
   
• Calling the union to account: One woman’s decade of labour activism
   
• Salesman demands equal pay for equal work
   
• Young office workers seek way out of legal quagmire by appealing online
   
• Rural township pockets social security contributions in graduate rural work program
   
• Downgraded and discarded: public broadcaster fights for his rights
   
• China’s “ant tribe” of university graduates starts to fight back
   
• Justice eventually for hotel worker dismissed with no compensation after two decades of service
   
• Bank employee sentenced to re-education through labour after protesting unfair redundancy payouts

Teachers

• How a simple labour dispute descended into a nightmare of black jails and labour camps
   
• China's community teachers: A historical debt still unpaid
   
• County government squeezes out community teachers
   
• Rural school teachers strike for promised higher pay
   
• Retired teachers battle with county government for their benefits
  
   

 

Medical staff

• Sacked Shanghai doctor invokes spirit of Mao Zedong in search for justice
   
• Health worker’s nine-year petitioning ordeal ends in psychiatric hospital

Others

• Elderly tailor cheated out of pension by the government; detained and tortured after protesting
   
• Migrant workers without a labour contract go unpaid for nearly a year
   
• Laid off prison workers cheated out of benefits and denied public redress