Labour News

• Migrant Workers

State Council, Labour Ministry and Trade Union focus on migrant workers' issues

The State Council, China's cabinet, issued an opinion paper on solving problems regarding rural migrant workers and listed seven key issues to be tackled. Among the priority issues listed in this 31 January report were solving the low wage and wage arrears problems of migrant workers, regularizing their employment procedures, providing recruitment services and job training, and tackling migrant workers' social security problems, in particular access to labour insurance schemes. [Read More [2]]

• Labour Action

Thousands of workers strike, protesting Yunnan Textile's restructuring

Three to four thousand workers at Kunming Municipal Textile group, deeply dissatisfied with the plant's restructuring programme and the fact that the workers were excluded from the restructuring process, staged a four-day strike before getting any response from management and city officials. The employees now await an April 1 decision on compensation terms and other issues. [Read More [3]]

Chinese Workers' Voices: Retirees' collective action on pensions often meet with violent crackdown (III)

Han Dongfang's radio interview with Chinese workers.
• Read the English transcript: [Click here [4]]
• Listen to the original audio file (in Putonghua): [Click here [5]]

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