Labour News

• Protest

3,000 workers protest against inhumane treatment at Hong Kong-invested factory

Thousands of workers at a Hong Kong-owned furniture factory in Shenzhen staged a protest on 3 April against long working hours and inhumane treatment. [Read More]

• Migrant Workers

30 migrant workers enslaved in Shanxi brickworks freed

Reports that 31 migrant workers, enslaved in a Shanxi brickworks, had been freed were carried by new media across the country, a sign that abuse of rural migrant workers has become an headline issue in China. [Read More]

• Industrial Accidents

Four miners killed in coal mine explosion; four women were among those working underground

A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China's Hunan province has killed four miners and left five others missing. Four women were found among those who were working in the mine. [Read More]

• Economic Reform and Income Distribution

Reform must create a framework for distribution of reasonable benefits

China's economic reform has entered a new phase in which changes to certain economic strongholds were required, according to Fan Hengshan, director of the Department of Economic System Reform of the National Development and Reform Commission. [Read More]

Chinese Workers' Voices: Compensation saga after Dongfeng Coal Mine explosion in Heilongjiang (I)
Han Dongfang's latest radio interview with Chinese workers.

• Read the English transcript: [Click here]
• Listen to the original audio file (in Putonghua): [Click here]

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