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Walmart workers in Changde stand firm as deadline looms
Huang Xingguo, chairman of Changde Walmart store trade union, today called on workers to stand united as the deadline for Walmart’s compensation offer approaches.
28 March 2014
TimDanaheyShow: Chinese Labor Conditions: Is This Our Corporate Future?
We called the experts in Hong Kong to learn about the harsh labor conditions and brutal management culture. The images of suicides, protests, stolen wages, and prison labor are, according to our expert in China, fairly typical.
20 March 2014
Open Democracy: Striking behaviour. Chinese workers discover a weapon against labour-market turmoil
In theory, workers in China are promised security through official trade union representation and the rule of the Communist Party. In practice, confronted with the endless churning of a globalised labour market, they are increasingly voting with their feet.
31 March 2014
Comment: In Good Faith. Compromise in the face of a revolution.
CLB Director Han Dongfang was interviewed on 5 March 2014 by Brian Dijkema for the Canadian Christian Magazine Comment. He discusses revolution, love, labour - and the personal and public nature of compromise.
05 March 2014
Workers at Samsung supplier in China win pay increase after strike
A strike by more than a thousand workers at Samsung supplier, Shanmukang Technology in Dongguan, ended over the weekend when the Korean-owned company agreed to increase overtime rates for weekdays and weekends and double the employees’ monthly subsidy. The basic monthly salary however remained the same.
31 March 2014
Three major cities in China raise the minimum wage
Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin today all announced an increase in the minimum wage for employees in those cities. Shanghai raised its monthly minimum wage rate to 1,820 yuan and the hourly rate to 17 yuan, making them the highest rates in China.
01 April 2014
Coal mine accidents in China decrease as production stagnates
Accident and death rates in China’s coal mines are coming down but this does not necessarily mean the mines are any safer. Coal prices are at a six year low and production is being cut back. What happens when prices rise again? Photograph by Peter Parks/AFP.
03 April 2014
Workers rally to defence of labour activist Wu Guijun
After more than 300 days in detention, Wu Guijun was in remarkably good spirits as his trial resumed in Shenzhen on 4 April 2014.As three police officers walked the slimly-built 41-year-old Wu into the courtroom, he was greeted with a round of applause from the 30 friends and co-workers who had come to show their support.
07 April 2014
China Digital Times: Labor Organization in China: Risky Business
n 2009, university-educated Huang Xingguo took a cashier job at a newly opened Walmart store in Changde, Hunan Province, where he quickly rose to management and was then elected to lead the store’s union branch, an arm of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). Following the Changde store’s recent and shortly-announced closure, Huang is mobilizing his store’s union branch in a case against Walmart that could challenge the ACFTU, an organization often criticized as being weak and far removed from the workers it is tasked with representing.
09 April 2014