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The Diplomat: China’s Reforms Leave Labor Unions Behind
When addressing the 16th national congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in Beijing on Monday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang spoke about deepening and accelerating economic reforms as well as enhancing efforts to protect workers' rights.
25 October 2013
Developing a blueprint for collective bargaining in China
Labour rights groups and worker activists have, for the first time, jointly devised and published a grassroots blueprint for collective bargaining in China. The aim of the Code of Collective Bargaining is to give employers and employees a practical guide to collective bargaining, and provide a possible template for collective bargaining legislation in China in the future.
28 October 2013
Undercover students expose sorry state of factory trade unions in Shenzhen
In summer 2013, a group of students from nine universities went undercover to assess the state of enterprise trade union reform in Shenzhen. They investigated five factories and found the trade unions to be of little or no use in protecting workers rights.
29 October 2013
SCMP: Trade unions failing in Shenzhen factories
Trade unions are invisible and ineffective in four factories in Shenzhen that have previously been recognised by the government as leaders in protecting their workers’ rights, according to undercover investigations conducted by a group of local university students.
30 October 2013
The company vanishes: workers chase shadows in search for wage arrears
Technician Zeng Biping and two colleagues are owed 180,000 yuan in wage arrears. After chasing their employer through a legal maze for nearly two years they are still waiting to be paid in full.
31 October 2013
Doctors protest at violence while hospital security guards languish in police detention
Following the killing of a senior doctor and the subsequent mass protest by hundreds of hospital workers in the Zhejiang city of Wenling last Monday, the issue of hospital security and the dangers faced by China’s doctors has once again hit the headlines.
04 November 2013
Frustrations lead to confrontation as workers take to the streets
Frustrations with low pay, wage arrears and poor, often hazardous, working conditions led to an increase in strikes and worker protests last month. China Labour Bulletin recorded 52 incidents on our Strike Map in October, up from 40 in the previous month. Photograph from Weibo: Factory workers in Dongguan protest non payment of wages.
06 November 2013
Playing hardball: Workers solidarity forces boss to make concessions
On 10 October, workers at the Liansheng moulding factory in Guangzhou signed a collective agreement that forced the company to do something it had steadfastly refused to for the last two decades – pay workers the severance pay they were entitled to. Photograph of the Liansheng workers from Weibo.
07 November 2013
Arsenic and old lies: Chemical plant worker cheated out of compensation
A petro-chemical plant worker from Jilin talks to CLB Director Han Dongfang about his struggle to get compensation and proper medical treatment for arsenic poisoning.
11 November 2013
La Presse: La vie après Tiananmen
Han Dongfang occupe un métier controversé en Chine : militants pour les droits des travailleurs. Arrêté durant le soulèvement de la place Tiananmen, en 1989, il a passé près de deux ans en prison pour avoir fondé le premier syndicat indépendant de Chine. Relâché après avoir contracté la tuberculose, il a été déporté à Hong Kong, où il a mis sur pied le China Labour Bulletin, une organisation qui aide depuis 20 ans les travailleurs chinois à faire valoir leurs droits et à demander de meilleures conditions de travail.
11 November 2013