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USA Today: Wages, conditions improve as workers in China form unions
In many ways, Lan Yimin represents the new generation of Chinese factory workers. She wants fair working conditions. Time off to socialize. And a job that pays enough so she can open a milk tea business one day.
19 November 2010
Foxconn workers in Foshan strike over low pay
Several thousand workers at a Foxconn affiliate in Foshan staged a strike on Monday 15 November. According to the Workers’ Forum network, the primary cause of the protest at Foxconn Premier Image Technology was the dissatisfaction of skilled workers over a planned pay rise, which would see the basic pay of both production line workers and skilled workers increase to 1,400 yuan a month.
19 November 2010
The National: Zimbabwean workers protest over treatment by Chinese companies
China's engagement in Africa has come under the spotlight amid claims from Zimbabwean union officials that Chinese companies are engaged in the "gross violation" of labour rules
22 November 2010
The National: China saves 29 from flooded mine
All 29 people trapped in a flooded coal mine in China's south-western Sichuan province were brought to safety yesterday, a happy outcome amid numerous fatal incidents in the country's mining industry.
23 November 2010
China's workers and the right to food
The Chinese government last week announced a series of measures to stabilize rapidly increasing food prices.
23 November 2010
Health worker’s nine-year petitioning ordeal ends in psychiatric hospital
Han Dongfang talks to a family of healthcare professional’s whose demands for pension arrears resulted in nine years of petitioning, detention in a black jail, and eventually incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.
29 November 2010
Time to overhaul coal mine safety in China
China Labour Bulletin is calling on the Chinese government and trade unions to radically rethink their approach to coal mine safety and comprehensively overhaul the country's occupational health and safety system.
30 November 2010
Guangdong ponders another increase in the minimum wage
The Guangdong authorities are considering a further increase in the minimum wage, after a 21 percent increase six months ago failed to resolve the province’s on-going labour shortage.
30 November 2010
Once again, labour issues hot topic in domestic media
Looking at influential newspaper Southern Weekend (南方周末) – one couldn’t help but notice that three of the top ten “most popular” articles are directly linked with distortions in the labour market.
30 November 2010
SCMP: Mechanism to set delta wage floor urged
Hong Kong manufacturers with factories across the border are lobbying the Guangdong government for a mechanism to determine minimum- wage rises to head off demands for bigger pay packets.
01 December 2010