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BBC Radio 4: Crossing Continents
China Labour Bulletin Director Han Dongfang is quoted in this half-hour radio documentary on migrant workers in Guangdong, produced and presented by Mukul Devichand for the BBC.
16 December 2011
Social work – a growing but unstable industry in China
Despite the growing interest of college students in social work and the relatively high salary of this profession, a Guangdong-based social worker service centre said they still have difficulty finding professional social workers. In Guangzhou alone, the shortfall in social workers will reportedly be 6,000 next year.
16 December 2011
Heilongjiang railway worker takes on his own trade union
When railway conductor Zhu Chunsheng discovered that he had been secretly demoted while at the same time being required to perform additional duties, he decided to fight back with an unusual strategy.
19 December 2011
Reuters: Apple supplier Pegatron hit by China plant blast
Apple Inc supplier Pegatron Corp's plant in Shanghai was rocked by an explosion over the weekend, the latest in a series of incidents that spotlights safety concerns at factories in China.
20 December 2011
Reuters TV: China's labour unrest to continue in 2012
It's back to work for these workers at a factory in Nanjing in Eastern China after South Korea's LG Display, agreed to double their year-end bonus. The workers downed tools earlier this week - angry that they were getting a smaller payout than their peers in South Korea.
29 December 2011
Le Monde: Two reports on worker activism in China from France's leading daily newspaper
A Shenzhen, ville chinoise où des centaines de milliers de salariés fabriquent des produits électroniques, les grèves se multiplient. Si elles font moins de bruit, c'est qu'elles touchent des usines moins médiatiques
29 November 2011
Beijing raises minimum wage, Shenzhen to follow next month
The Beijing municipal government increased the capital’s minimum wage by 8.6 percent on 1 January this year, and the Shenzhen government has announced it will increase its minimum wage to 1,500 yuan a month on 1 February, making it once again the highest minimum wage in China.
03 January 2012
Amendments to China's occupational health law get cautious welcome
Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Occupational Diseases (职业病防治法), approved by the National People’s Congress on 31 December 2011, will go some way to ease the ordeal workers face in getting diagnosed and compensated for occupational disease, according to a leading labour rights activist.
03 January 2012
SCMP: Shenzhen 'wants to kill' HK factories
Shenzhen's minimum wage will rise from next month, ending a one-month delay to the increase rather than a year-long grace period that angry Hong Kong manufacturers had asked the municipal authorities for in December.
04 January 2012
Huffington Post:The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay for China's Economic Miracle
There is a saying in China about the coal miners who go underground into the bowels of the earth to earn their living -- that they only become human again when they come back to the surface.
04 January 2012