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As economy picks up China’s workers start to demand higher wages
After two months dominated by wage arrears cases, worker protests in China are featuring demands for higher pay again as the economy begins to improve and the cost of living increases. China Labour Bulletin recorded 45 collective protests on our strike map in December, including 16 wage arrears protests and nine demands for pay increases. Photo of strike at Shenzhen toy factory from Weibo..
11 January 2013
The Atlantic: China's Uneven Labor Revolution
Factory conditions in the People's Republic may be improving -- but service workers are getting left behind.
14 January 2013
China Economic Review: Labor 2.0
China’s next generation of workers must evolve or be left behind.
14 January 2013
Nowhere left to run for factory owners in Asia
When the cost of labour started to rise in China a few years ago, many manufacturers thought it would be a smart move to decamp to smaller Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia where wages were a lot lower and the pro-business government made it easy for them to set up shop. However, many Cambodian workers and trade unionists had other ideas.
15 January 2013
Wall Street Journal: Hon Hai Confirms 'Workplace Issue' at Supplier
Gadget assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said that a "workplace issue" took place at a Chinese factory owned by one of its suppliers, following reports by labor groups that a strike over wages had broken out there.
17 January 2013
Wages and disposable income in China increase by about ten percent in 2012
Despite long-standing complaints by business-owners about severe wage inflation in China, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics today show that the disposable income of urban residents increased by only 9.6 percent last year after adjusting for inflation.
18 January 2013
Workers at state-owned oil company step up demand for equal pay for equal work
The 600 auxiliary workers at a major state-owned oil company in Shaanxi, who successfully staged a protest last month against plans to reassign them as agency workers, are continuing to press their additional demands for equal pay for equal work. Photograph of oil company workers from 集体谈判论坛小编@Sina Weibo.
21 January 2013
Labour activist sues Walmart for wrongful dismissal and wins
When Shenzhen Walmart employee Li Wan attended a collective bargaining training seminar in neighbouring Hong Kong in the summer of 2011, she hoped the experience would help in her fight to improve pay and working conditions at the store. Front page photograph of Walmart store in Bao'an, Shenzhen by dcmaster available at flickr.com under a creative commons license.
22 January 2013
The Guardian: Chinese workers dance Gangnam Style to protest over unpaid wages
Construction workers from Wuhan say dance was the only way to draw attention to problems
24 January 2013
Yunnan landslide highlights the devastation wrought by coal mining
A Yunnan villager describes how the encroachment of coal mining has all but destroyed his village and caused almost irreparable environmental damage.
25 January 2013