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China’s workers defiant and determined
The two-week strike by 40,000 workers at the vast Yue Yuen shoe factory in Dongguan last month was one of the largest strikes in living memory. It was important not simply because of its sheer scale but also because it highlighted what is likely to become one of the most pressing problems facing the Chinese government in the next decade – social security.
23 May 2014
Labour activist Wu Guijun detained for one year: China’s workers more determined than ever
The harassment and detention of worker activists serves no purpose except to further alienate the government from the people. The Chinese government needs to allow workers to push for better pay and working conditions through collective bargaining and not punish them simply because their boss refuses to negotiate.
23 May 2014
Wall Street Journal: China Pressures Wal-Mart to Settle Labor Dispute
Authorities in China are pushing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to settle a dispute with employees in a case that highlights the increasing power of workers in China's labor market.
28 May 2014
Reuters: In China, managers are the new labour activists
Behind China's biggest strike in decades last month was a new player in Chinese labour activism: management.
02 June 2014
Reuters: China’s strikes not as bad as they seem
China’s workers are asking for more. Luckily, many employers can justify the expense.
04 June 2014
Shenzhen authorities drop charges against labour activist Wu Guijun
After three court hearings and more than a year in detention, the Shenzhen Procuratorate has dropped its charges against labour activist Wu Guijun, Wu confirmed today. Wu had earlier been released on bail on 29 May 2014.
09 June 2014
The Nation: Could China’s Labor Unrest Spark Another Tiananmen Moment?
In 1989, the news about protesters being massacred in Tiananmen Square reached my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, and I joined in a public art protest, with community members painting righteously in solidarity. With a grade-schooler’s energy, I splashed a canvas with a blood-red flame erupting over a swath of ocean, flecks of each color jumbled together in a storm of screaming American-flag colors.
10 June 2014
Financial Times: China drops charges against labour activist Wu Guijun
Chinese prosecutors have dropped charges against a labour activist in southern Guangdong province, in a case widely seen as a litmus test of official tolerance for the country’s increasingly robust worker movement.
10 June 2014
Wall Street Journal: Labor Pains: A Rising Threat to Stability in China
Chinese authorities greeted the 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square by detaining dozens of activists and lawyers, proving that Beijing continues to be haunted by the specter of those protests a quarter century after they ended. But another, less eye-catching series of detentions and convictions highlights a separate source of concern for the central government: swelling dissatisfaction among workers.
11 June 2014
AFP: China in rare ruling favouring strikers: report
A Chinese committee has ruled against an employer who fired 40 workers for going on strike, state-media said Wednesday, highlighting rising labour activism in the world's second largest economy.
12 June 2014