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BBC World Service Business Daily: Deep Dirty and Dangerous
As the world waits to see if the thirty three Chilean miners trapped 700 metres underground are pulled out safely, Business Daily looks at the safety of mines and mining. After years of decline fatality figures in China are on the rise again; Jonny Dymond talks to Geoffrey Crotham of the China Labour Bulletin about whether new safety initiatives in China wil make a difference; and Anthony Hodges of the International Council on Mining and Metals tells the programme whether or not he'd go down a Chinese Mine.
12 October 2010
Reuters: iPhone maker faces new criticism over China labor practices
Hon Hai, maker of Apple's iPhone, faces new allegations of worker abuse at its sprawling China plants in two reports that claim conditions have not improved despite company promises after a rash of suicides. One report, based on interviews with over 1,700 workers by 20 universities in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, criticized Hon Hai for long working hours, a "militaristic" work culture and mass employment of low-wage vocational college students and interns on production lines to cut costs.
12 October 2010
Swimming against the tide: How the government has tried to control labour conflicts in China
In late September, after a month of intense lobbying, business leaders from Hong Kong succeeded in postponing legislation in Guangdong that would have given workers the chance to initiate and participate in collective bargaining with management.
12 October 2010
Swimming against the tide: How the government has tried to control labour conflicts in China
A new report examines how, why and when, during the process of economic reform, the Chinese government ceded exclusive power to management, with workers left out in the cold. Photo by onekel.
13 October 2010
AP: Report: China, Hong Kong businesses blocking labour reforms
Powerful business interests in China and Hong Kong have effectively blocked recent labour reforms, raising the likelihood of further bouts of wildcat strikes and other unrest, a report said Wednesday. The China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based group that monitors labour conditions in China, said Hong Kong business leaders recently helped block proposed legislation in neighbouring Guangdong province that would have enabled workers to initiate and join in collective bargaining with management.
14 October 2010
Wealth gap a major source of concern in Beijing - survey
The vast majority of people in Beijing believe the gap between rich and poor has reached dangerously high levels, a new social survey by the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences has found. The 2010 Blue Book, published this week, pointed out that “hatred of the rich” is now increasingly common among the residents of the Chinese capital, with more than 70 percent of respondents saying the gap between rich and poor was now “unreasonable.” Moreover, the majority of respondents singled out “people profiting from illicit activities” as the main cause of the increasing wealth gap.
14 October 2010
Chilean mine rescue leads to soul searching in China
The inspirational rescue of 33 Chilean miners, broadcast live around the world this week, has been met with mixed feelings in China. While sharing in the joy of the miners’ liberation from ten weeks underground, many in China are asking what would have happened if the workers had been trapped in a Chinese mine.
15 October 2010
37 Chinese miners die in Henan just days after the rescue of 33 miners in Chile
Officials confirmed today that all 37 miners trapped underground during a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s central Henan province on 16 October have died. A total of 276 miners were underground when 2,500 tonnes of coal dust enveloped the mine in Yuzhou after a gas explosion in the early hours of Saturday morning, just two days after the dramatic rescue of 33 Chilean miners, trapped underground for about ten weeks.
19 October 2010
Worker's lawsuit challenges inadequacies of China's compensation system
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A 21-year-old migrant worker from Hunan, who lost a hand in a work-related accident last year, is challenging legal provisions that limit the amount of compensation workers can receive, irrespective of the employer's culpability in the accident.
20 October 2010
Worker's lawsuit challenges inadequacies of China's compensation system - updated
A 21-year-old migrant worker from Hunan, who lost a hand in a work-related accident last year, is challenging legal provisions that limit the amount of compensation workers can receive, irrespective of the employer’s culpability in the accident. In July 2009, Ruan Libing, a newly recruited employee at Elec-Tech in Zhuhai, had his left hand crushed whist operating machinery at the plant. His hand was amputated in a subsequent hospital operation. Even though his working life was effectively over, Ruan received just the statutory compensation payment of approximately 90,000 yuan.
20 October 2010