Labour News

• Press Release

Xiao Yunliang freed 24 days before jail sentence ends

Prominent labour activist Xiao Yunliang was released from prison on 23 February, only 24 days before his four-year jail sentence ended. China Labour Bulletin welcomes the release of Xiao, but the move just 24 days before the end of his sentence suggest there has been no change in the government's attitude towards labour activists in China. "Xiao's released only shortly before his term was completed shows that the Chinese government has not changed its hostile attitude towards workers' organisers in China," said CLB's director Han Dongfang. [Read More]

• Interview

Interview with daughter of Xiao Yunliang: Family under close surveillance after release of Liaoyang workers' leader [Read More]

• National People's Congress

Premier Wen pledges 3 billion yuan for coal mine safety

Highlighting China's deplorable production safety record, Premier Wen Jiabao said in his work report to the National People's Congress on 5 March that the central government would invest 3 billion yuan from the sale of treasury bonds this year to seek technical solutions to gas explosions in coal mines. [Read More]

• Industrial Accident

Six miners killed, 25 missing after coal mine blast in Hebei

Six miners were killed and 25 others trapped after a coal mine explosion in Huangsha Town in Cixian County, Hebei Province. [Read More]

Chinese Workers' Voices: Retirees' collective action on pensions often meets with violent crackdown (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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