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China’s vocational schools offer golf caddie training for the would-be upwardly mobile
A vocational school in the southern province of Hunan is offering middle and high school graduates the chance to forge a new career, and mix with the rich and powerful, by training as a golf caddie. It seems clear that the only reason students would consider this course is not for the job itself but because they think it will put them in close proximity to the businessmen, government officials and influential investors who regularly prowl the country’s ever expanding network of golf courses and country clubs.
26 July 2011
Abuse of the labour supply system rampant in Dongguan
Companies in the manufacturing heartland of Dongguan are abusing the labour supply (劳务派遣) system to such an extent that it is now the primary cause of labour disputes in the municipality, government officials have warned. They cited the case of an enterprise in Tangxia township which employed 40,000 workers, all of whom came from labour supply companies, which in theory are only supposed to provide short-term and supplementary labour.
29 July 2011
Young worker reports violent boss to the police - gets compensation and an apology
Like many other vocational school students from a poor family, 20-year-old Young Cai got a factory job this summer to help pay his school fees. On 5 July, he started working at a shoe factory near his home in Quanzhou, Fujian, doing 11-hour shifts a day for a promised monthly salary of 1,500 yuan. When he was beaten by the boss for working too slowly he went to the local police station. The police came to the factory and ordered the boss to make a formal apology and pay Cai 1,500 yuan in compensation, in addition to the 600 yuan in wages he was already owed.
01 August 2011
Workers’ future unclear as Foxconn announces plans for one million robots over the next three years
The announcement by electronics giant Foxconn on 30 July that it intends to automate much of its basic-level production by introducing one million robots over the next three years means an uncertain future for many of the company’s one million employees in mainland China.
01 August 2011
The Guardian: Taiwan iPhone manufacturer replaces Chinese workers with robots
The electronics manufacturer Foxconn has been accused of treating its workers like machines as they toil on assembly lines, particularly after a spate of suicides among its Chinese employees in recent years. Now the company, best known for producing iPhones and other hi-tech gadgets, has found a solution: use robots instead.
02 August 2011
Shanghai and Hangzhou protests highlight growing frustration of taxi drivers across China
The at times violent strike by thousands of taxi drivers in Hangzhou and a smaller protest by drivers at one company in Shanghai on 1 August are the latest in series of strikes and go-slows by cabdrivers in China this year, angry at rising fuel prices, the charges and restrictions imposed by the cab companies, and the lack of effective government regulation.
02 August 2011
Le Nouvel Observateur: La longue marche des syndicalistes chinois
China Labour Bulletin is cited extensively in this article The Long March of China's Trade Unionists by Ursula Gauthier in the French magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. 29 July 2011, No.2438. Copyright remains with the original publisher.
03 August 2011
APM Marketplace: Labor too expensive? Get a robot
Chinese factory owner Foxconn assembles iPads and iPhones and has now announced that in the next few years it will replace a portion of its workforce -- with robots.
03 August 2011
Railway workers stage strike in Changsha
Several hundred railway workers from the Zhuzhou depot in Hunan staged a mass protest at the province’s main railway station in Changsha on 2 August over long-standing grievances at the railway company’s staff deployment system, the Daily Economic News (每日经济新闻) reported.
04 August 2011
Netizens have their say about the recent strike action in China
It is very unusual to see the word strike (罢工) in the mainstream media in China. Most official publications prefer the less sensitive term “work stoppage” (停工) but China’s netizens are not so shy. Indeed, many netizens are the first to report strikes and worker protests, such as the strike by railway workers in Changsha, which was photographed and uploaded by a lawyer passing through the train station where the drivers were gathered.
05 August 2011