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Old Gold & Black: Chinese labor rights activist addresses conditions of workers
Look at the tag on the back of your shirt or in your shoes and chances are, you will most likely see the line, “Made in China.” Behind this simple acknowledgement occupies a realm of issues related to Chinese manufacturing and in particular, the rights of Chinese workers within industry. Han Dongfang, a Chinese labor rights activist, addressed students and faculty on these issues April 9 in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
11 April 2013
Inside the labour arbitration court: Sacked workers fight for reinstatement
Jennifer Cheung attends an arbitration hearing held in Guangzhou on the sacking of five employees at the Fortune 500 company International Paper after they staged a work to rule in protest at the company’s bonus offer. Photo of sacked workers with their lawyer Duan Yi outside the arbitration court.
16 April 2013
Why it is important to remember Sun Zhigang
Ten years ago, a young migrant worker, Sun Zhigang, was brutally beaten to death whilst in police custody in Guangzhou. When the incident was reported by the Southern Metropolitan Daily at the end of April 2003, it caused a national outrage and mounting public pressure forced the newly installed government in Beijing to quickly dismantle regulations controlling the movement of migrant workers in an attempt to prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
17 April 2013
CLB Press Conference. Time to Pay the Bill: China's obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis
Two decades of unchecked economic growth has produced an occupational disease epidemic in China that requires urgent action from the government.
18 April 2013
Shandong officials claim to have the answer for China’s taxi strife
A government-created trade union is being touted as the solution to the long list of grievances routinely voiced by taxi drivers across China. But for taxi driver trade unions to be really effective, the authorities will have to embrace the idea that the job of the trade union is to empower rather than control its members. Photograph by Boris van Hoytema available at flickr.com under a creative commons license.
24 April 2013
Time to Pay the Bill: China's obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis
Two decades of unchecked economic growth has produced an occupational disease crisis in China that requires urgent action from the government. An estimated six million workers in China, predominately poor migrants from the countryside, have already contracted the debilitating and deadly lung disease, pneumoconiosis. It has ruined their lives and left their families impoverished and mired in debt. Whole communities in remote parts of China have been devastated by this entirely preventable disease but, as yet, the central government in Beijing has done little to help.
24 April 2013
Time to Pay the Bill: China’s obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis
In CLB’s third report on pneumoconiosis in China, we highlight the efforts of the workers fighting for justice, the support they have received from civil society, and the response of the government.
25 April 2013
Radio Australia: China accused of neglecting millions of workers with lung disease
A Hong Kong labour rights organisation says an estimated six-million workers in China are suffering from a deadly occupational disease, but receiving no aid.
26 April 2013
A time to remember, a time to act
Sunday 28 April is the International Labour Organization World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the day workers around the world commemorate the victims of work accidents and occupational disease and urge all governments to take action.
26 April 2013
Strikes and worker protests in China’s service sector on the increase
More than half the strikes and worker protests recorded by CLB last month occurred in the service sector, with protests by transport workers being particularly prevalent. A total of 45 protests were recorded on CLB’s strike map in April, about the same level as in March. There were 27 incidents in the service sector and 17 of those were in transport. Photograph of worker protest outside Yamada store in Jiangsu.
07 May 2013