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Wage increases quiet worker protest - for the time being
Strikes and increases in the minimum wage of more than 20% have eased some of the pressure felt by China’s poorest paid workers this year but their income is still far from being a decent wage. Photo. S J Photography.
03 November 2010
Shenzhen sacks striking cab drivers but also makes concessions
The Shenzhen authorities have dismissed 46 of the more than 3,300 suburban taxi drivers who took part in a three day strike in the city at the end of October. However, in a bid to ease tensions, the government also stated that the cost of taxi security deposits would be cut in half.
04 November 2010
Mongolian herders lose land and livelihood in state farm sell-off
Over the last ten years, hundreds of employees at an Inner Mongolian state farm have lost their land and livelihood as managers sold off pasture for profit. Workers who protested were harassed and even detained by local officials and later forced into hiding.
08 November 2010
Seminar suggests child labour is on the rise in China
The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 215 million children around the world engaged in work. No one knows for sure how many children are working in China because the government does not publish such data, but the recent signs are worrying. Several participants at a seminar in Shenzhen last week indicated that the use of child labour was on the rise again, particularly since the implementation of the Labour Contract Law in 2008. Children were primarily employed by factories as a means of cutting costs.
09 November 2010
Stricken coal miner sees compensation award cut in half after mine boss refuses to pay
On 28 October, a court in the heart of China’s coal country reduced its original compensation award of 490,000 yuan to a former coal miner suffering from second-stage pneumoconiosis to 270,000 yuan, after the mine owner had refused for nearly a year to comply with the court order.
10 November 2010
Sanyo workers in Shenzhen stage strike
More than a thousand workers at Sanyo Huaqiang Laser Electronics in Shenzhen’s Longhua district staged a one day strike last week over working conditions and a planned merger with a factory in another district in downtown Shenzhen.
15 November 2010
The hard road from Sichuan to Guangdong
Yang Renbin worked as an engraver for 12 years at Lucky Jewellery in Guangdong, breathing in clouds of silica dust on a daily basis. In 2005, he contracted silicosis. He has still not received any occupational disease compensation.
16 November 2010
Beida Prof needs to take elementary school science class
Many people in China are talking about China’s first employment discrimination lawsuit based on the prospective employee’s AIDS status. The plaintiff, known by his pseudonym Xiao Wu, filed an anti-discrimination lawsuit in the Yingjiang District Court in Anqing on 26 August after the Anqing education department denied him a teaching position because he was HIV positive. The court formally accepted the case on Monday August 30, but the court ruled against him on 12 November. Xiao Wu, however, plans to appeal.
17 November 2010
On wages in China, agricultural workers in Inner Mongolia, child labour and new media.
In this podcast, we discuss wages in China, strikes, agricultural workers in Inner Mongolia, child labour and new media.
17 November 2010
USA Today: Once-jailed Chinese labor activist works within the system
He spent almost two years in jail, contracted tuberculosis and lost a lung. The hardships would break the spirit of many, but the former railway worker is still fighting for labor rights today. The difference is, he's doing so by working within the system.
19 November 2010