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Searching for the Union: The workers’ movement in China 2011-13
CLB’s latest research report on the workers’ movement examines the relationship between workers, the trade union, civil society and the government during a period of rapid socio-economic change
20 February 2014
Financial Times: Wu trial tests China’s tolerance of strikes
If Wu Guijun is sentenced to five years in a Chinese prison, it will be in part because he allegedly led workers in chanting “Long live the Communist party” and singing “Socialism is good”, a patriotic anthem.
20 February 2014
Business Week: Behind China's Labor Unrest: Factory Workers and Taxi Drivers
What’s the state of dissent among China’s hundreds of millions of workers? They are increasingly aware of and demanding their rights, according to a new report by the China Labor Bulletin.
21 February 2014
Migrant worker wages increased by 14 percent in 2013
The average monthly income of China’s 269 million rural migrant workers stood at 2,609 yuan at the end of 2013, an increase of about 14 percent over the previous year, but still far below the average wage for urban workers. Photo by CLB.
21 February 2014
In China, Democracy Must Begin on the Factory Floor
CLB Director Han Dongfang discusses the rise of the workers' movement in China and the challenges ahead for the Communist Party and government. Photo by Photograffiti.@flickr.com
21 February 2014
Techpresident: Absent a Labor Union, Chinese Workers Organize With Social Media and Cheap Smartphones
The industrial city of Dongguan in Guangdong Province, China, is so littered with factories that when 1,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned Croc manufacturing company gathered outside to protest cuts to their bonuses in the spring of 2012, no one took notice.
24 February 2014
Financial Times: Cramped courtroom hints at power of China’s labour movement
Shenzhen trial highlights workers’ growing confidence
25 February 2014
In These Times: China’s Militant Workers Embrace Collective Action
China is the big business story of the 21st century, but is it also the big labor story?
27 February 2014
Arbeiter in China sind nicht nur Opfer. Sie sind auch eine Kraft – eine Kraft, die sich erhebt
Han Dongfang (Jahrgang 1963) ist Herausgeber des China Labour Bulletin. Der chinesische Arbeiteraktivist und Gewerkschafter schloss sich während der Protestbewegung auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens 1989 der Autonomen Pekinger Arbeiterunion an und wurde zu deren Sprecher gewählt. Daraufhin musste er für 22 Monate ins Gefängnis
20 February 2014
Searching for the healthcare workers’ union
After yet more violent assaults on doctors and nurses in China, the issue of hospital workers’ safety is once again in the headlines. However, no one seems to be asking what the trade union at China’s hospitals is doing to protect its members.
03 March 2014