2018年12月6日，湖北省宜昌市，融创融公馆在建工地拖欠工资，工人堵门讨薪被捕
Read more...工会改革观察与促进 第五期 湖北省 (第1/5个案例)
2018年12月11日，湖北省武汉市黄陂区，望建集团保利上城项目部被指拖欠工资，工人集体讨薪
Read more...Workers in China’s private sector earn less, protest more
Workers in China’s domestically-owned private enterprises earned considerably less and experienced lower wage growth last year than those employed in the state-sector and companies with overseas investment, official data shows.
Read more...Senior staff at Oracle’s Beijing research centre protest layoffs
Staff at US-owned tech giant Oracle’s China Development Centre in Beijing have staged protests this week over the company’s plans to layoff at least 500 employees.
Read more...China’s regional governments reluctant to raise the minimum wage
So far this year, only three out of 32 regional governments have increased their statutory minimum wage, although several others are expected to follow suit later in the year.
Read more...Frontline trade union officials kept in the dark as leaders hold meetings
In this case study from CLB’s trade union reform and accountability program, we ask why frontline trade union officials in the Anhui city of Lu’an were unaware of a major transport strike on their doorstep and why they were kept in the dark about an important initiative to recruit transport workers to the union.
Read more...China’s workers’ movement will continue despite crackdown on labour activists
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.
Read more...Court cases show labour disputes concentrated in domestic private enterprises
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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