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Arbitration committee in Changde rules against Walmart workers
An arbitration committee in the central city of Changde has formally rejected a compensation claim by Walmart employees who were laid off by the company following a store closure in March.
26 June 2014
CNN: People power in the People's Republic of China
This month's episode of On China with Kristie Lu Stout focuses on China's civil society and airs for the first time on Thursday, June 26, 4:30 pm Hong Kong/Beijing time
27 June 2014
The American Prospect: Why China Has Strikes Without Unions
By eschewing the role of dissident, organizers allow the Communist Party to respond either favorably or neutrally to their actions, rather than repressing them.
27 June 2014
Bloomberg: Is Work Killing You? In China, Workers Die at Their Desks
Chinese banking regulator Li Jianhua literally worked himself to death. After 26 years of “always putting the cause of the party and the people” first, his employer said this month, the 48-year-old official died rushing to finish a report before the sun came up.
30 June 2014
Guangzhou court rejects shipyard workers’ occupational disease lawsuit
A Guangzhou court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 34 shipyard workers who claimed their employer, CSSC Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, had colluded with its affiliated hospital to conceal the results of health checks which should have revealed the early stages of the deadly lung disease pneumoconiosis.
02 July 2014
Shanghaiist: As China's wages increase, so does its rich-poor gap, says study
A recent study by the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin shows that while China's wages have increased over the past two decades, so has the chasm between rich and poor.
03 July 2014
Beijing comes up with yet another cunning plan to get rid of migrant workers
For years now, the municipal authorities in Beijing have been trying to control the city’s burgeoning population by making life more and more difficult for migrant workers. The message has been clear: We will tolerate you because we need you but you are not welcome to stay.
03 July 2014
Strikes and worker protests gain momentum in China as economy stutters
Strikes and worker protests in China continued to gather pace in the second quarter of 2014 as workers demanded higher pay, social security, wages in arrears and compensation for factory relocations etc.Photo from Weibo of workers at an electronics plant in Henan demanding wage arrears.
04 July 2014
Washington Post: When dollars trump democracy in China
That was quite the demonstration by the citizens of Hong Kong on Tuesday — half a million protesters, by some estimates, braving tropical downpours to tell the Politburo in Beijing that they wanted to choose their own leaders.
04 July 2014
SCMP: Student workers at Dongguan factory were under-age, state media claim
State media says 192 underage labourers were given fake papers for jobs at Dongguan plant
09 July 2014