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Learning the hard way about trade union elections
Han Dongfang talks to a Shenzhen factory worker about why workers campaigned to remove the trade union chairman they had democratically elected just nine months earlier. .
09 May 2013
HazardEx: China coal mine safety improves, but fatalities still high
A coal and gas outburst killed 21 miners at a colliery in Guizhou Province, Xinhua reported, adding that 58 more had managed to get to the surface safely. Four others were missing after the March 12 incident at the Machang coal mine, which is part of Guizhou Water & Mining Group.
10 May 2013
The Economist: Girl Power
As the supply of female factory-workers dwindles, blue-collar women gain clout
10 May 2013
Police reaction to migrant’s death highlights social tensions in Beijing
As several hundred migrants from Anhui staged a protest in Beijing on 8 May demanding a proper investigation into the suspicious death of a young migrant at a local market, police descended in force and helicopters circled above to make sure the protest did not get out of hand. Front page photograph of a now demolished migrant community in Beijing.
10 May 2013
At least 40 coal miners killed in two explosions in China over weekend
Two explosions at coal mines in southwest China over the weekend have left 40 miners dead and dozens injured, official media reported.
13 May 2013
Sex workers in China failed by the state and society
The sex industry in China has grown rapidly over the last two decades and there are now an estimated four to six million sex workers in the country. However, they are all too often demonised by society as immoral and diseased. They are abused by clients and police alike and subject to arbitrary fines and detention for up to two years.
14 May 2013
In these Times: A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers
With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese factories to fill a small country. So it's fitting that the company has vowed to make its manufacturing kingdom a bit more democratic by encouraging union elections.
16 May 2013
Graduate makes formal complaint against local government for hukou discrimination
A 23-year-old graduate from Anhui has written a formal complaint letter to the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security accusing it of discrimination in its recruitment drive.
16 May 2013
Putting the garment industry’s promises into perspective
The final death toll at Rana Plaza was 1,127. It was by far the worst disaster in the centuries-long history of garment industry tragedies. Yet, the response of the international garment industry and the government in Bangladesh thus far has been to promise basic safety standards and workers’ rights that should have been in place years ago.
20 May 2013
Laid-off sanitation workers demand 1.5 million yuan in compensation
A group of 14 sanitation workers in the southern city of Foshan are demanding 1.5 million yuan in compensation for wages in arrears and years of unpaid overtime, holidays, social insurance contributions and other allowances.
21 May 2013