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Bloomberg Businessweek: Shanghai Pushing Gold to $1,600 Thwarts Fight to Shut Mines
Yu Zudong rides an orange truck rattling down Xiaoqinling mountain in central China, past a landscape pockmarked with gold caves and the garbage-strewn tent homes of workers.
“Everybody here wants to earn a fortune,” says Yu, a migrant miner who is taking a 24-ton load of gray rocks to a grinder in the foothill town of Yuling.
Nearby, sitting in one of the shanties, miner Li Shanchi waits for his next payday. He hasn’t worked for two months since officials closed some mines after a fire killed nine workers on the mountain, 800 kilometers (500 miles) southwest of Beijing. His lungs are filled with dust he inhaled during a decade of mining, he says, leaving him with silicosis, an incurable lung disease.
30 December 2010
Top 5 Labour News Stories in China in 2010
William and Geoff re-cap the top 5 news stories of 2010.
In this episode, we mention:
The China Media Project
China Labor News Translations
SACOM
30 December 2010
Financial Times: Shenzhen workers feel shift in dynamics
At the end of a year of rising wages and spiralling raw material costs, it was not the kind of festive surprise Hong Kong businessmen with factories in southern China would have wanted.
06 January 2011
Time for China to criminalize the willful non-payment of wages
It is wage arrears season again in China, and government officials are trying to ensure that as many workers as possible get the wages owed to them before the lunar New Year holiday. Photo courtesy attack the darkness available at flickr.com under a creative commons license.
13 January 2011
Shenzhen bus strike erupts into violence – highlights need for collective bargaining
Several bus drivers and conductors were injured in a clash with police on 10 January after more than 100 workers staged a strike over wages outside a bus depot in suburban Shenzhen.
13 January 2011
Taxi drivers on strike in two Chinese cities
Taxi drivers are on strike on two central Chinese cities protesting new local government policies which, they say, will damage their livelihoods.
In Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, thousands of taxi drivers have been on strike since 10 January protesting at the city government’s decision to abolish the long-established system of six work days, one rest day (“运六歇一”制度). In the smaller city of Xianning, south of Wuhan, several hundred drivers have been on strike for nearly one month. The strike began on 16 December after the city government announced that cab licenses would be rescinded after ten years, and that the drivers’ 30,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan license fee would not be returned.
14 January 2011
Young lives ruined by the refusal of the boss to pay wage arrears
All Liu Yongli wanted was the two months’ wages owed to her by the shoe factory in Dongguan she had been employed at for the previous eight months. But when the 21-year-old migrant worker from Sichuan demanded her back pay, the boss refused point blank. Distraught, Liu went back to her dormitory and jumped from the fifth floor. She sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital. But once she was out of critical condition, the company refused to continue paying for her medical treatment because, management said, she had officially terminated her employment eight days earlier.
17 January 2011
Nine dead in explosion at firecracker factory
At least six people died and 22 were injured during a massive explosion at a firecracker factory in rural Henan, the official Chinese media reported today. All of the dead and injured were local villagers employed at the factory in Luohe’s Yancheng district. The explosion, which occurred late afternoon on 19 January, lit up the evening sky for about four hours and completely razed the football field-sized factory to the ground, local officials said.
20 January 2011
Financial Times: Fears grow that China is overheating
Concerns the Chinese economy is overheating mounted after offical figures revealed the economy grew faster than expected at the end of last year and inflation remained above target. Meanwhile, Guangdong added to the fears after China’s biggest provincial economy increased its minimum wage by 18 to 26 per cent, the second big increase in less than a year.
24 January 2011
China’s work-related injury rehabilitation centres lie empty
There are well over a million work-related injuries in China every year, yet many of the government’s newly established rehabilitation centres lie empty because poorly-paid migrant workers, who are the main victims of accidents, are either unaware of their existence or simply cannot get in.
25 January 2011