Instead of addressing the legitimate demands of workers to establish a trade union, the government continues to suppress the Jasic workers and their supporters, thereby creating more and more problems for itself.
Read more...Guangzhou factory workers seek support from the trade union: The union lets them down
When workers at Hong Kong-owned Tongrong Electronics in Guangzhou asked the local trade union to support their legitimate demands for social insurance contributions in arrears, officials were reluctant to intervene and even tried to mislead workers after the company admitted violating labour law.
Read more...Explosion near chemical plant kills at least 22
An explosion outside a chemical factory in the northern city of Zhangjaikou has killed at least 22 people and injured another 22, Chinese media reported today.
Read more...Behind the ecommerce boom: Exhausted delivery workers and rural poverty
Behind the e-commerce boom are millions of delivery workers making sure packages reach their final destination and countless migrant workers who believed in the promise of earning money by helping develop rural China
Read more...Five young kindergarten teachers die in sub-standard housing tragedy
Deaths highlight the enduring problem of shoddily-built and hazardous accommodation that China’s low-paid workers are forced to live in.
Read more...Shenzhen commits to compensate protesting pneumoconiosis workers
More than 200 migrant workers from Hunan left Shenzhen today after the municipal government finally agreed to compensate them for their occupational lung disease, pneumoconiosis, contracted while working in the city’s construction sites back in the 1990s.
Read more...Trade war has little impact so far on factory worker protests in China
Four months in, there has been a lot of talk about the Sino-US trade war but so far there has been no commensurate increase in collective action by China’s factory workers.
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