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Monthly Archives: April 2019

China’s workers’ movement will continue despite crackdown on labour activists

Posted: Apr 30 2019 Categories: News Tags: Worker Activism and Collective Bargaining Comment: 0

China will mark May Day this year with around 50 labour activists in some form of detention. CLB reiterates its call for the release of all activists and an end to the crackdown.

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Court cases show labour disputes concentrated in domestic private enterprises

Posted: Apr 29 2019 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

Official statistics released by a Shanghai court have confirmed that labour disputes tend to be overwhelmingly concentrated in domestically-owned private enterprises.

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Workers at recycling tech start-up stage protests over wage arrears

Posted: Apr 23 2019 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

More than 1,000 workers employed at waste recycling company Little Yellow Dog have staged numerous protests in at least four major cities over the last week demanding the payment of wages in arrears.

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Ten more workers die during routine maintenance work in China

Posted: Apr 16 2019 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

Ten maintenance workers were killed and 12 rescue workers were injured during an accident at a pharmaceutical factory in the eastern province of Shandong on 15 April.

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Local trade union officials express desire to support workers but acknowledge limitations

Posted: Apr 11 2019 Categories: News Tags: Trade Union Reform and Accountability Comment: 0

In the second English-language case study from CLB’s trade union reform and accountability program, we look at how trade union officials in Liyang, southern Jiangsu, responded to a dispute at a local factory where workers were owed six month’s wages. 

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Express delivery workers protest as industry hits speed bump

Posted: Apr 08 2019 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

There have been at least six protests by express delivery company employees in the last two weeks over a wide-range of issues including lay-offs, wage arrears, social insurance and equal pay for equal work.

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Another deadly explosion in Jiangsu claims at least seven lives

Posted: Apr 01 2019 Categories: News Tags: Latest News Comment: 0

Just ten days after the massive explosion at a chemical plant in Jiangsu that killed at least 78 people, another explosion at a factory in the same province has killed seven people and injured another five, one critically.

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