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Hospital security guards detained for 50 days after staging protest
A group of 12 hospital security guards in Guangzhou have been detained for 50 days and now face criminal prosecution after staging a high-profile protest at a wide range of management abuses on 19 August 2013.
08 October 2013
SCMP: University students forced to work at Foxconn, report says
Xi’an Technological University students say they were told they would not graduate if they refused to work at Foxconn
10 October 2013
Al Jazeera: Chinese students pressured to produce PlayStation 4: Reports
1,000 students faced with decision to manufacture Sony's popular video game console or not graduate
11 October 2013
Diary of a Chinese worker activist. Women workers fight for justice in Guangzhou
Last month, 19 striking workers at a jewellery factory in the Guangzhou suburb of Panyu were sacked without any compensation. Three of the workers were pregnant and two were nursing mothers.
15 October 2013
Ji Zhongxing appeals six-year jail sentence for Beijing airport bombing
A wheelchair-bound migrant worker, Ji Zhongxing, was Tuesday found guilty of intentionally detonating a homemade bomb at Beijing airport and sentenced to six years in jail. He is likely to appeal.
15 October 2013
Time to get back to basics in labour relations
A group of labour organizations, activists and workers is urging the government to get back to basics and re-establish the primacy of direct employment contracts and ensure that employment agencies are only used for their original intended purpose; namely the supply of temporary, auxiliary and substitute labour.
17 October 2013
Public outcry grows over Shenzhen labour activist’s five month detention
Wu Guijun, a 40-year-old migrant worker and father of two, has been detained for nearly five months and faces possible criminal prosecution after staging protests against his employer and petitioning the local government in Shenzhen.
18 October 2013
Sixty three days later: The “zombie” interns of Foxconn
Xiao Chen is a second-year computer science major at China’s North-western Polytechnic University in Xi’an. His internship this year, like that of many of his fellow students at North-western, was halfway across the country in the coastal city of Yantai working on the production line for Foxconn. Photograph of Foxconn in Shenzhen by CLB.
22 October 2013
Supermarket workers in Beijing strike after corporate takeover
The US$302 million acquisition of CP Lotus stores in China by Chinese supermarket operator Wumart last week has got investors very excited. Employees at the Lotus outlets in Beijing were less impressed however and staged a series of strikes over the weekend in a bid to protect their jobs.
24 October 2013
Christian Courier: A new way for labour in China
A new way for labour in China. From Tiananmen Square to labour reform
24 October 2013