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Reuters: Lunar New Year highlights China labour issues
Among the millions crowding China's railways stations and airports in the annual Lunar New Year trek home are many workers who won't be coming back to their jobs in the workshop of the world.
28 January 2011
On criminalizing non-payment of wages, China's empty work-related injury rehabilitation centres, and more...
In this podcast, William and Geoff discuss CLB's call to criminalize the willful non-payment of wages, the many un-used work-related rehabilitation centres in China, and William's blog.
28 January 2011
Indian official hails China's "flexible" labour laws
India can still learn from both China’s successes and failure. One option might be to reform labour laws to encourage manufacturing, while also ensuring that independent (non-party affiliated, worker-centred) trade unions are able to organize in the private sector in order to ensure more equal economic development. This could, dare I say, help provide for a more harmonious society.
28 January 2011
Marketplace: New Year highlights a shift in China's workforce
I was buying an electronic gizmo online last night, when an alert popped up that the New Year observance in China would delay the arrival of my order. Today marks the start of a new lunar calendar -- and the most important holiday in China. It's a time when the cogs in China's massive economic machine stop turning and take a break. But for those doing business there, it's a stressful time. Marketplace China correspondent Rob Schmitz explains why.
04 February 2011
Is the future of microblogging in China really so bright?
As our website is blocked in mainland China, CLB is now using microblogs to reach our mainland audience and let them know what CLB is doing. Since we started this initiative in November, we have received a warm response from both ordinary citizens and mainstream journalists in China. Although it’s encouraging to note that CLB’s Chinese microblog has over 3,000 followers, the outlook for this new internet sensation is actually not as promising as it seems.
07 February 2011
Hired on Sufferance: China's migrant workers in Singapore
There are an estimated 200,000 Chinese migrant workers in Singapore. They are employed in the city's construction sites, factories, shops and restaurants; working long hours for low pay in frequently hazardous conditions. Many have to endure abuse, discrimination and violations of their rights but few can obtain legal redress. Their movements, behaviour and even their "moral conduct," are tightly controlled by their boss, who can terminate their employment and send them back to China at anytime and without any justification.
09 February 2011
Hired on Sufferance: China’s migrant workers in Singapore
How Chinese workers are recruited to work in Singapore, the working conditions and discrimination they endure, and how, when no longer needed, they are sent back to China. Photo of workers in Singapore by dominiqueb available at flickr.com.
10 February 2011
Former steel workers battle industrial goliath
Han Dongfang talks to Liu Xiangdong, who is fighting a lonely battle against the might of his former employer, a state-owned steel works in north-eastern China and the local government that is dependent on it for employment and taxes.
15 February 2011
The Guardian: Apple report reveals child labour increase
Apple found more than 91 children working at its suppliers last year, nine times as many as the previous year, according to its annual report on its manufacturers. The US company has also acknowledged for the first time that 137 workers were poisoned at a Chinese firm making its products and said less than a third of the facilities it audited were complying with its code on working hours.
16 February 2011
Young migrant workers take centre stage
A migrant worker singing duo 旭日阳刚 (A New Dawn), who became an internet sensation last year after they uploaded their cover of Wang Feng’s popular anthem春天里 (In Spring), were accorded the ultimate media accolade last week, a performance on the biggest show on television, CCTV’s New Year Gala.
16 February 2011