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Wall Street Journal: Strains Show in China's Job Market
Labor Strife Increases as High Wages, Low Demand Send Some Employers Packing, While Others Close
12 June 2013
The life and death of a child worker in China
To mark the International Labour Organization’s World Day against Child Labour on 12 June this year, CLB has translated the tragic story reported in the Southern Daily "Child worker in Dongguan started working age 12 dies suddenly after sending home 500 yuan." Photograph of factory recruiters in Dongguan by CLB.
12 June 2013
Business Week: How Long Can Edward Snowden Stay in Hong Kong?
Where in Hong Kong is Edward Snowden? We know from the Guardian that the 29-year-old former CIA employee is somewhere in the former British colony.
20 June 2013
China curbs its enthusiasm for the new Labour Contract Law
When China’s Labour Contract Law was implemented in 2008, it created quite a bang. The newly revised Labour Contract Law, which will go into effect on 1 July this year, is creating little more than a whimper. Photograph by randomwire@flickr.com available under a creative commons license.
20 June 2013
VOA: Report: Chinese Workers Increasingly Use Collective Actions
China's economic slowdown, and the rising costs of labor in the country's main industrial hubs, are contributing to a transformation in the way workers negotiate with employers, says a Hong Kong-based workers' rights organization
21 June 2013
Business Week: China's Manufacturers Seek Ways to Cut Costs
In the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, two hours by ferry and car from Hong Kong, there’s something new on the rooftop of the large factory complex owned by outsourcing specialist Flextronics International (FLEX): solar panels.
22 June 2013
Short circuit the cause but negligence ultimately to blame for factory fire that killed 121
A short circuit was identified Friday as the primary cause of the fire that killed 121 workers at the Baoyuanfeng poultry plant early this month, but officials later conceded that negligence was ultimately to blame.
22 June 2013
AFP: US boss taken hostage in China over workers spat
AN AMERICAN factory boss in China held hostage for five days by workers said he won't be released until a labour dispute is resolved.
26 June 2013
Financial Times: Disgruntled factory workers in China hold their US boss hostage
The machines are all ready to go. But the lights are out at Specialty Medical Supplies, a small American company that has been making alcohol swabs and plastic parts in Qiaozi, a sleepy town at the foothills just north of Beijing, for 10 years.
26 June 2013
Taken for a ride: Guangdong bus drivers stage strike as union sides with boss
Han Dongfang talks to striking bus drivers in Guangdong about their wide-ranging dispute with management and the failure of the trade union to act.
26 June 2013