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Local governments more active in labour dispute resolution
Local governments took a far more active role in dealing with strikes and worker protests in May, directly intervening in half the cases recorded on CLB’s strike map last month. Local governments intervened or mediated in nine of the 20 strikes recorded in May, compared with just one such intervention in April. Pay demands once again dominated workers’ complaints with nine cases last month, and the manufacturing sector was once again the major source of strikes, primarily in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and foreign invested factories.
08 June 2012
Salesman demands equal pay for equal work
A former salesman for one of China’s best known drinks companies talks to Han Dongfang about the inequities of the labour agency system under which he and thousands of other workers were employed.
11 June 2012
Are Chinese transport workers learning from Western transport unions?
Last week, London bus drivers, members of Britain’s largest trade union, Unite, voted by more than 90 percent for strike action during the upcoming Olympic Games to press their claim for a £500 bonus. At the same time, more than 80 percent of the taxi drivers in the town of Yueqing, near Wenzhou, went out on strike on the first day of the national college examination (高考) in a bid to draw attention to the unfair competition they face from unlicensed cabs.
12 June 2012
SmartPlanet: Chinese tourists poised to transform global travel industry
Aboard a passenger ferry bound for Japan, 61 year old Zhang Suqing has one thing on his mind: karaoke greatness. The “Yanjing” ferry carries Chinese tourists on the two day journey from Tianjin, a port city on China’s east coast, across the Yellow Sea to Kobe, Japan.
13 June 2012
CLB calls for a full and open investigation into the death of Li Wangyang
We call on the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to establish a special committee to uncover the truth surrounding Li Wangyang’s death, how he was rendered both deaf and blind, and the extent of the torture he endured over two decades in prison. Photo by jblahblahblah available at flickr.com under at creative commons licence.
13 June 2012
Li Wangyang’s death and what it means for the labour movement in China
The suspicious death of Chinese labour activist Li Wangyang on 6 June has triggered a wave of anger and massive demonstrations here in Hong Kong, putting pressure on the Chinese government for a special investigation into his death and the torture he suffered during his 21 years’ in prison.
15 June 2012
Why raising the retirement age is a bad idea for workers
It was no surprise that when the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) announced in early June that raising the retirement age for workers in China was unavoidable due to people’s longer life expectancy, it quickly galvanized a heated public debate.Front page photo of worker in Xi'an's old city by Mathieu Gasnier.
22 June 2012
Guangzhou workers increase pressure on government over wages
Two strikes in four days by thousands of Guangzhou factory workers demanding higher pay have renewed the pressure on the provincial government to increase the minimum wage. The Guangdong government was expected to increase its statutory minimum wage earlier in the year but under pressure from the Hong Kong business lobby, the government announced that the minimum wage would only be increased later at “the appropriate time.” Photograph of strikers at the Citizen factory in Guangzhou from Weibo.
19 June 2012
Learning lessons from coal mine disasters in Shanxi and West Virginia
Two coal mine tragedies, occurring within days of each other in the coal heartlands of China and the United States, have revealed the key issues surrounding coal mine safety and shown what action needs to be taken in the future to protect miners’ lives. Photograph by LHOON available at flickr.com under a creative commons license.
25 June 2012
Zhongshan riot reveals long unresolved tensions in Guangdong
A major riot involving hundreds of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta city of Zhongshan this Monday and Tuesday has reignited long unresolved tensions between the local and migrant populations in Guangdong.
27 June 2012