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Shenzhen trade union seeks to help striking workers sacked by IBM
The Shenzhen Municipal Trade Union has demanded that IBM reinstate the 20 workers representatives sacked during the ten-day strike at the IBM ISTC factory which ended 12 March. Thus far however the company has refused and the union is now considering legal action.
13 March 2014
China Times: High rate of strikes in China shows changing labor landscape
More than 1,000 strikes have taken place in China over the past two and a half years as workers have become more aware of their rights, a report claims.
15 March 2014
Fifteen minutes of fame. Three years of waiting
Former Gansu gold mine worker wins legal battle for occupational disease compensation but comes away disillusioned with the system.
15 March 2014
More voices join call to set up fund for migrant workers with pneumoconiosis
Several delegates taking part in last week’s annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and its advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, have called on the government to do more for the estimated six million workers with pneumoconiosis in China.
17 March 2014
Labour activists propose new legal protection for worker representatives
Several labour activists and scholars have proposed a revision to China’s Trade Union Law that could help protect workers’ representatives from retaliation by employers.
18 March 2014
Walmart workers in China blockade store in protest at closure plan
Police moved in on Friday 21 March to remove the 143 workers had been picketing a Walmart store in the central Chinese city of Changde for two weeks, after management announced 4 March that the store would close down on. Several workers were injured.
20 March 2014
Financial Times: Official China union raises stakes in Walmart closure programme
A restructuring of Walmart’s China business is being challenged by the country’s normally reticent official union, which is involved in at least one of three protests that have erupted at stores slated for closure this month.
24 March 2014
Painted into a corner: Factory worker left with nowhere to go after contracting anaemia
Han Dongfang talks to a factory employee badly poisoned at work but with little hope of getting occupational disease compensation.
25 March 2014
Civil service jobs lose their allure as low pay and crackdown on corruption takes hold
“When I grow up, I want to be a corrupt official. Corrupt officials get lots of presents.” Five years ago, this famously was the dream of a six-year-old primary school student in Guangzhou. Today, it seems the prospect of becoming a corrupt official is not quite as attractive as it once was.
26 March 2014
At least 11 dead in Guangdong workshop fire
At least 11 people were killed and another 17 injured when a fire broke out at a small family-run underwear workshop in Puning county, Guangdong, in the early afternoon of 26 March.
27 March 2014