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China’s workers emboldened: Strikes escalate in March
The number of strikes recorded by China Labour Bulletin in March 2012 reached its highest monthly total since we started monitoring worker protests on a day to day basis 15 months ago. A total of 38 strikes were logged across China, primarily in the manufacturing and transportation sectors. Half of the strikes, 19 in all, were related to pay demands, three concerned factory relocations, three strikes were in protest at merger or restructuring plans, and four were related to the payment of overtime.
08 April 2012
Reuters: Young Chinese workers seek end to "eating bitterness"
In the eight years since Zhang Shuxiang first left her village in the poor interior of central China, she worked in 20 factories before coming to the assembly line of a Foxconn plant making products for tech firms including Apple. She wants it to be her last.
08 April 2012
Survey shows China’s job market still out of kilter
On Monday 9 April more than 200 college graduates applied for 20 job openings as garbage sorters in Guangzhou. By contrast, according to the latest national job market data in China, there were on average only 100 applicants for 218 jobs as senior technicians in the first quarter of this year.
13 April 2012
At least 15 killed in coal mine flooding
At least 15 miners were killed and seven remain missing in two separate flooding incidents over the weekend, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
16 April 2012
China.org.cn: Firms 'ducking occupational disease claims': Report
Complicated regulations and bribes paid by business owners to corrupt officials are preventing Chinese workers suffering from occupational diseases from receiving rightful compensation, a new report says.
29 April 2010
Workers file criminal prosecution against boss who made them sick
A former worker at an artificial diamond plant in Guangdong talks to Han Dongfang about his efforts to get compensation from the company that made him and hundreds of his colleagues sick with pneumoconiosis.
17 April 2012
Socialist Review: Trouble brewing in China
What are the main reasons behind the upsurge of strikes in China recently? There are lots of different reasons. The most fundamental is that workers don't really have any other option if they want to pursue their economic interests or defend their legal rights. There is no established system of dialogue workers can use to express their grievances with employers. The only way they can get their voices heard is basically to go on strike.
18 April 2012
Women workers in China standing up to discrimination
In the United States, the “war on women” often garners banner headlines as activists try to halt the alarming rollback of women’s rights. In China, the erosion of women’s rights has been quieter but in many ways just as worrying. And in response, women in China too are increasingly willing to stand up to widespread and widely-accepted discrimination in the workplace and society in general.
19 April 2012
Ownership of operating licenses become the focus of latest taxi strikes
Apart from skyrocketing fuel prices and high vehicle leasing fees, the ownership of taxi operating licenses is a long-standing problem that has been at the forefront of several taxi driver strikes and protests in the last few weeks. The operating license is the often biggest single investment for taxi drivers in China, costing several hundreds of thousands of yuan. But the question of what happens to the license when the contact period expires has led to numerous and intractable disputes.
23 April 2012
Giving a voice to China’s least known migrants in Africa
There are an estimated one million Chinese citizens in Africa. While most attention is focused on those working on large-scale infrastructure and mining projects, there are large numbers of Chinese migrants spread across the continent making a living as traders in rural areas and urban marketplaces. They forged their own pathways in Africa and seem entirely divorced from the policies normally associated with China’s African interests. Yet the experiences of these traders could weigh heavily on the future of Chinese–African relations.
26 April 2012