Contractor’s teenage daughter falls to her death in wage arrears protest
In the latest tragedy to hit China’s troubled construction industry, the 14-year-old daughter of a labour contractor, who was owed nearly a million yuan, fell to her death from the 16th floor of the...
View ArticleFactory workers sacked for demanding a representative trade union go to...
A group of 35 workers from the Foshan Arts and Crafts factory attended two separate arbitration hearings on 2 February claiming they had been illegally dismissed after engaging in collective...
View ArticleInternational Socialist Review: China’s changing working class
Earlier this year, the South China Morning Post—the Hong Kong equivalent of the New York Times—ran an interview with Geoffrey Crothall of the China Labour Bulletin, which began by asking, “Why are we...
View ArticleChina’s annual coal mine death toll falls below 1,000 but no one seems to...
At the end of January, China’s State Administration for Work Safety announced that the total number of coal mine accidents and deaths last year had fallen by 16.3 percent and 14.3 percent respectively....
View ArticleQuartz: China’s “factory girls” have grown up—and are going on strike
Yang Liyan, a 30-year-old migrant worker, says she has cried twice in the past year. Once was when she was having her first meal in jail, and again after she was released and talking to her co-workers...
View ArticleTrade union official has callous and ignorant response to death of elderly...
When Yang Jinzhong, a 65-year-old sanitation worker in Chengcheng county, Shaanxi, was hit and killed by a motorcycle while at work sweeping the streets on 31 January, no one really paid any attention.
View ArticleIn These Times: A Turning Point for Chinese Workers?
Amid a wave of strikes, hopes for lasting workplace reforms
View ArticleStepping into the breach: labour groups start to take on the role of the...
In China Labour Bulletin’s new Chinese-language report on the Workers’ Movement in China, we focus on the growing importance of China’s civil society labour groups during a period of rapid social,...
View ArticleFive years on, Nanhai Honda workers want more from their trade union
Five years ago, on 17 May 2010, more than a thousand workers at Nanhai Honda in Foshan walked off the job, initiating a ground-breaking strike that came to symbolize the rise of the workers’ movement...
View ArticleIn These Times: In China, Walmart Is Unionized, But Workers Have No Power on...
Almost 10 years after Walmart was forced to accept unionization of its stores in China, the U.S.-based merchandising giant continues to deny basic collective bargaining rights to its Chinese retail...
View ArticleMint Press: Wal-Mart is eating the Earth
We attended a recent panel discussion on how Wal-Mart workers are organizing -- or failing to organize -- to protect their rights everywhere from “Bentonville to Beijing.”
View ArticleA thorn in the side of Walmart: Wang Shishu goes to court again
Three years to the day after he was first sacked by Walmart for organizing workers to take a stand against low wages and an ineffective trade union, labour activist Wang Shishu was back in arbitration...
View ArticleIn China, there is no firefighters’ trade union and it shows
The lack of a trade union in China that is dedicated to the protection of firefighters has led to an under-staffed, poorly-trained and poorly paid workforce that has now suffered what is probably the...
View ArticleWhat the local trade union did in the wake of the Tianjin disaster
The Tianjin union officials have been busy providing victims of the disaster with “psychological consultations” and carrying out search and rescue missions but not actually doing any union work.
View ArticleChina’s official trade union takes a holiday in dreamland
While many workers in Europe were enjoying their six weeks annual leave over the summer, the Chinese government decided it would be a good idea if China’s workers had an extended weekend. Photograph:...
View ArticlePressure builds on Walmart in Shenzhen as trade union activists fight back
Sacked Walmart workers in Shenzhen are joining forces to put pressure on the world’s largest retailer to curtail its harassment of labour activists and genuine trade unionists.
View ArticleSacked labour activist continues to push for workers’ trade unions
Zhu Xiaomei has used her own struggle and experience in standing up to her employer to help drive China’s workers’ movement forward and emerge as one of most dynamic labour activists in the Pearl River...
View ArticleChina’s proposed taxi reforms seen as lacking any substance
After more than a year of protests by cab drivers across China against unfair competition from drivers using ride-hailing apps, the Transport Ministry in Beijing has issued a directive on reform of the...
View ArticleWalmart workers in China push for genuine trade union elections
Walmart workers in Shenzhen are stepping up their efforts to hold the company’s first-ever democratic trade union election, nine years after Walmart first agreed to allow trade unions in its China stores.
View ArticleSuntory brewery workers in China force their trade union to take a stand
Workers at least three breweries in eastern China owned by Suntory Holdings went on strike last week after the company announced it was pulling out of its loss-making joint-venture with China’s...
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