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Monthly Archives: November 2018

Guangzhou factory workers seek support from the trade union: The union lets them down

Posted: Nov 29 2018 Categories: News Tags: Trade Union Organizing and Training Comment: 0

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.

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Explosion near chemical plant kills at least 22

Posted: Nov 28 2018 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

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.

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Behind the ecommerce boom: Exhausted delivery workers and rural poverty

Posted: Nov 22 2018 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

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

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Five young kindergarten teachers die in sub-standard housing tragedy

Posted: Nov 20 2018 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

Deaths highlight the enduring problem of shoddily-built and hazardous accommodation that China’s low-paid workers are forced to live in.

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Shenzhen commits to compensate protesting pneumoconiosis workers

Posted: Nov 14 2018 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

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. 

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Trade war has little impact so far on factory worker protests in China

Posted: Nov 14 2018 Categories: News Tags: Worker Activism and Collective Bargaining Comment: 0

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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Shenzhen police use pepper spray on protesting pneumoconiosis workers

Posted: Nov 09 2018 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

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.

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The road ahead for China’s trade unions

Posted: Nov 08 2018 Categories: News Tags: Trade Union Organizing and Training Comment: 0

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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