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On coal mine safety, wages in Guangdong, and more
In this podcast, William Nee, Geoffrey Crothall, and Jeremie Beja discuss CLB's most recent attempts to help improve coal mine safety, wages in Guangdong, and Jeremie's take on the recent taxi strikes.
06 December 2010
Explosion at state-owned coal mine kills 26
At least 26 miners died when a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in the central province of Henan on Tuesday 7 December. State media reported that 20 of 46 miners thought to be underground at the time had been safely evacuated. The disaster came just one week after seven miners died in a flooded coal mine in Xiangtan, Hunan province. According to the official Chinese media, mine owners and managers had been warned at least four weeks earlier of the potential safety hazards at the mine. In both cases, the mines had recently merged with other mines or mining groups in a bid to boost production.
08 December 2010
Forced labour reported in remote Xinjiang factory
Around a dozen workers have been held in a state of indentured servitude in a building materials factory in Xinjiang for around three years, working long hours in appalling conditions for no pay, according to an investigative report in the mainland media. The workers were trapped thousands of miles from home in Toksun county south of the provincial capital, Urumqi. They were beaten if they tried to escape and fed the same food as the boss’ dogs.
13 December 2010
The glaring need for greater vigilance against labour trafficking in China
Once again the authorities have reacted with remarkable alacrity to an appalling case of labour rights abuse, after, and only after, it has been exposed in the Chinese media. Within days of the Xinjiang Metropolitan Daily’s report on a factory that was using the mentally disabled as slave labour, the factory owner and his son had been arrested, along with the labour trafficker who allegedly sold the workers to the factory. The workers had been rescued and placed in care, and the trafficker’s “Beggars Adoption Agency” in Sichuan’s Qu county had been closed down, the official media reported.
15 December 2010
Collective contract highlights problems of underpaid hospital workers in China
The Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions will next year press for the unionization of the capital’s more than 30,000 hospital supply workers, and the establishment of collective contracts with labour supply companies. The union federation announced last week that Beijing’s largest hospital labour supply company, Huijiafeng, had signed a collective labour contract with the district trade union, stipulating that, in 2011, the minimum wage for company employees would be 1,300 yuan per month or 55 yuan per day
20 December 2010
Teenage worker arrested after allegedly stabbing boss to death
A seventeen-year-old worker is in detention after stabbing his boss more than 30 times in a dispute over unpaid wages, the mainland media has reported. The young worker, surnamed Wang, had been employed for two months at a small factory in the northeastern city of Jilin. He had been promised a salary of 500 yuan a month but had only been paid 300 yuan for two months work. He made repeated demands for his due wages but was always rebuffed by the boss.
22 December 2010
Forced labour in Xinjiang, a deadly stabbing in Jilin, and Hunan workers fight for justice
William Nee and Geoffrey Crothall discuss a forced labour case in Xinjiang, a worker who stabbed his boss after repeatedly being denied his back wages, and Hunan workers who are striving for justice. We also encourage readers to look at some of the China Media Project's top stories of 2010
23 December 2010
Beijing to increase municipal minimum wage, pensions and welfare benefits
The Beijing authorities will on 1 January increase the city’s minimum wage for a second time in six months. The monthly minimum wage will go up by 200 yuan to 1,160 yuan, making it the highest in the country. In total, the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Department announced six new measures, all of which will go into effect on 1 January, to strengthen its social welfare safety net as price rises begin to hurt the city’s most vulnerable.
28 December 2010
Washington Post: China's trade union takes up a new cause — workers
China’s only legal trade union organization, a tool of Communist Party control long scorned by workers as a shill for big business, is experimenting with a novel idea: speaking up for labor.
29 April 2011
In these Times: Season of Hardship Connects Struggling Workers in Two Worlds
Millions of Americans barely scraped by this holiday season, stuck in poverty-wage jobs or mired in unemployment. But the latest retail sector reports show that we did manage to shop a little more, perhaps because people are resorting to the material comforts of consumption to make up for the misery they've suffered as workers. And it's that appetite for consumer goods that has shaped the holiday wish list of struggling workers on the other side of the world, who are growing increasingly impatient in their demands for a decent standard of living.
30 December 2010