RFA: Strikes on The Rise in China Ahead of Lunar New Year Holiday
Chinese workers have staged hundreds of strikes in recent months, many of them over unpaid wages ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday, according to a recent report.
View ArticleChina’s workers get ready for another Year of the New Normal
On the surface at least, there is not a lot for China’s workers to celebrate this New Year: The economy is, by Chinese standards, barely crawling along, factories, coal mines and construction projects...
View ArticleAustralian Financial Review: Why China is aiming for 'low' growth rate of 7...
Premier Li Keqiang is expected to announce this year's target for growth in gross domestic product of "around 7 percent" when he gives his work report - China's version of the State of the Union - to...
View ArticleStudents use crowd funding website to support worker activist in Guangzhou
When Chen Weixiang, a 22-year-old medical student from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, heard in January this year about the dismissal of local sanitation worker and labour activist Yu Wucang, he...
View ArticleChina’s labour groups need to be in line with the needs and demands of workers
The veteran labour lawyer and advocate for collective bargaining Duan Yi has called on China’s labour groups to work together to better serve the interests of China’s workers.
View ArticleQuartz: Chinese taxi drivers attempt suicide to protest the government’s...
A group of over 30 Chinese taxi drivers ingested pesticides and laid down in the middle of a shopping street in Beijing this weekend to protest the government’s restrictive rules on taxi leasing.
View ArticleAP: China's labour movement poses dilemma for Communist Party
More than three decades after Beijing began allowing market reforms, the mainland's 168 million migrant workers are discovering their labour rights through social media. They are spearheading a labour...
View ArticleWall Street Journal:China Aims to Soothe Labor Unrest
As slowing growth fuels labor unrest in the world’s second-largest economy, China’s top leadership is pushing for greater efforts to foster harmony across its increasingly agitated workforce.
View ArticleTownship government finally compensates family of labour contractor after...
In another tragic case of construction industry wage arrears, Han Dongfang talks to the family of a labour contractor who killed himself after being cheated out of 150,000 yuan.
View ArticleNew York Times: Chinese Cab Drivers Take to Song to Call for Their Own Company
To protest their working conditions, a group of about 30 taxi drivers from northeastern China drank pesticide on a central Beijing shopping street on April 4. The men survived after being sent to local...
View ArticleChina’s miners step up protests as industry downturn continues
Workers in China’s coal, iron ore, gold and silver mining industries have all taken to the streets in protest this year as the economic slowdown continues to impact on mining companies across the country.
View ArticleLiberation: En Chine, les ouvriers posent leur condition
En dépit d’abus régulièrement constatés, les conditions de travail ont tendance à s’améliorer et les négociations collectives à se généraliser.
View ArticleThe Nation: Cabbies Are Driving the Opposition to China’s Ridesharing Revolution
Taxi drivers are striking back to defend their right to a fair living.
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 ArticleNew York Times: China Turned to Risky Devaluation as Export Machine Stalled
Across China, millions of workers and thousands of companies are feeling the pain of the country’s slowing economy, as sales slip and incomes drop.
View ArticleChina’s e-commerce workers protest over wage arrears, contracts
Championed by the Chinese government as the “bright spot” in the future of the economy, China’s e-commerce sector has recently been hit by labour unrest, with three protests in just one week last month.
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 ArticleFoxconn sacks Shenzhen workers for protest over social insurance payments
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has dismissed 16 workers at its massive Longhua facility in Shenzhen for staging a protest over the alleged non-payment of social insurance...
View ArticleHong Kong Free Press: Foxconn fires workers in Shenzhen after labour rights...
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has sacked 16 workers in one of its factories in southern China after the workers protested over social benefits, according to NGO China Labor Bulletin.
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...
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