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Huffington Post: High Tech, Low Pay: Let the Workers Behind Our Electronics Be Heard
Apple may be reporting record company sales in 2011, but one thing the company is not making noise about are the details surrounding a string of recent tragedies at the Chinese factory where so much of Apple's current success story is based.
05 August 2011
Rural township pockets social security contributions in graduate rural work program
A university graduate employed as a “village official” in rural Sichuan for three years was denied unemployment benefit because the local government refused to pay his social security contributions.
09 August 2011
New Zealand Herald: Adidas jersey makers paid under $100pw
Workers sewing the adidas All Blacks jerseys are paid less than $100 a week - yet each jersey is sold for a recommended $220 in New Zealand. The jerseys are made by the Bowker Yee Sing Garment Factory (He Yuan) Co Ltd, in the city of Heyuan in Guangzhou Province. The 14,100sq m factory employs 2400 staff, half of whom sleep in dormitories.
15 August 2011
Nearly 30 migrant schools in Beijing ordered to close
Around 30 private schools, set up to provide a basic education for the children of migrant workers in Beijing, have been ordered to close, leaving nearly 30,000 students with an uncertain future as the new school year begins, the Beijing News reported today.
16 August 2011
China orders employers to keep health records of workers in hazardous positions
In a potentially significant development in the fight against the occupational disease epidemic that is sweeping China, the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) is requiring employers to keep health records of all their employees who are exposed to health hazards.
19 August 2011
Hong Kong conference to tackle pneumoconiosis - the single greatest threat to the health and lives of China's workers
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Date: 28-29 August 2011.
Start time: 9.30.a.m.
Location: Council Chamber, 8th Floor, Meng Wah Complex, University of Hong Kong.
Language: Mandarin Chinese.
China Labour Bulletin highly recommends a two-day conference at the world-renowned University of Hong Kong on Sunday 28 and Monday 29 August that will examine the deadly lung disease pneumoconiosis, and the devastating impact it has wrought on the lives of more than one million workers in China and their families.
22 August 2011
On a wave of transport strikes...and more
In this podcast, William Nee and CLB's Chinese Website Editor Jennifer Chueng discuss recent taxi strikes, the closing of migrant worker schools in Beijing, and a conference on pneumoconiosis at Hong Kong University.
30 August 2011
Time: Another Slavery Scandal Uncovered in Central China
Four years after China's last major slave labor scandal, a group of disabled men has been freed from a brick kiln in the central province of Henan after an investigation by an undercover television reporter. Some of the men had been forced to work for years without pay, enduring beatings and poor food and living conditions, the state-run China Daily reported.
12 September 2011
Coal mine unions in Shanxi push collective wage negotiations
Trade union officials in Shanxi, the traditional heartland of China’s coal industry, plan to establish a system of collective wage negotiations that will help boost miners’ incomes across the province, the official Xinhua news agency reported on 6 September.
16 September 2011
Global Post: Protests grip China
In the spring of 2008, there were mass riots in Tibet, followed by deadly riots in Xinjiang a year later. Last year, it seemed that labor strikes were popping up at a record pace all over the country, particularly at the facilities of foreign companies. This year, clusters of migrant workers, parents and townspeople have taken to the streets in different parts of China to voice complaints over everything from regional discrimination and a growing wealth gap to government corruption and lead poisoning among children.
18 June 2011