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.
Read more...Shenzhen police use pepper spray on protesting pneumoconiosis workers
Shenzhen police used pepper spray on a group of protesting pneumoconiosis workers on Wednesday night. “We want to eat! We want medical care! We want dialogue with the Shenzhen mayor!” workers chanted in front of a government building.
Read more...The road ahead for China’s trade unions
In the final English-language extract from CLB’s report on the workers’ movement, we evaluate the ACFTU’s reform measures, identify the problems that need to be fixed and recommend a path for the union to follow.
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