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Letter to Walmart China, by The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman (BRS)
This is the letter sent by The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalman (BRS) to CEO of Walmart China, regarding to support Chinese Walmart workers’ demand on end its “Flexible Working Hour Scheduling”.
August 15, 2016
Mr. (…)
Roughly two months have passed since the Qiaobi detergent advertisement went viral. The advert, in which a Chinese woman shoves a black man into a washing machine only for him to emerge as a shiny, clean, Asian man, prompted Western media to call it “the most racist ad ever” . At the height of (…)
Guangdong labour activists Zeng Feiyang, Meng Han, Zhu Xiaomei and Tang Huanxing, who were arrested by Chinese police on 3rd December, 2015, were charged with “disturbing social order” by the People’s Procuratorate of Panyu District, Guangzhou Municipality in June and will be on trial in the (…)
One worker’s tale of exploitation and fighting back in the new China.
Under China’s labor management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state’s official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from (…)
On 21 June, the Walmart Chinese Workers’ Association (WCWA) announced in its blog that it and its American counterpart, OUR Walmart (Organisation United for Respect at Walmart), had joined hands in cyberspace to discuss how to move forward in their struggle against Walmart. This marks a new (…)
A key ingredient of China’s Post-Mao economic “miracle” is a labour regime entrenched in the export-oriented consumer manufacturing sector and premised on despotic exploitation, institutional discrimination and political exclusion of labour. It is built on the back of massive rural-to-urban (…)
AS CHINA’S ECONOMY slows down, it appears that worker discontent is growing and the regime is responding with sharper repression against the labor rights movement. The movement’s activities are legal under Chinese law, but always under threat when they become effective.
Under as a system where (…)
Multinational corporations are once again profiting off of China’s dismal labor conditions.
The shiny stainless steel kitchenware adorning our kitchens comes from some of China’s dirtiest factories, according to a new report by labor watchdogs.
The New York-based advocacy group China Labor (…)
A Chinese labour rights NGO targeted in a government crackdown last year has fought back by suing state news agency Xinhua for defamation.
Nanfeiyan Social Works Service Centre in Foshan, Guangdong submitted a civil case against Xinhua and journalist Zhou Wei to a local court on Monday, (…)
On December 3, the Chinese state detained more than 20 people associated with various labor solidarity organizations in Guangdong province. The detainees had been active in the labor movement there, providing various services and training. The government crackdown comes amid a rising tide of (…)
IndustriALL Global Union and other global unions demand the Chinese government to free detained labour activists in Chinese province Guangdong, stop suppressing labour and civil society organisations, and respect the fundamental labour rights enshrined in ILO Conventions.
IndustriALL has (…)
Seven worker-activists involved in the independent labor organizations known as “worker centers” have been arrested.
In an unprecedented crackdown on some of China’s most effective independent labor organizations, known as worker centers, seven worker-activists have been detained Attorneys, (…)
We appeal for your solidarity support to the Chinese labour activists in Guangdong Province facing suppression by the Chinese Government. Four Labour NGOS were suddenly “raided” by the Police since Dec 3 and 25 Labour NGOs staff and volunteers were detained and questioned by police. Six of them (…)
Government crackdown in Guangdong could backfire by crippling groups that channel worker anger into peaceful protest, say rights groups and analysts.
Chinese campaigners have called on Beijing to free five prominent labour activists after police launched an “unprecedented” crackdown designed (…)
At least four labour activists remain in criminal detention following a recent crackdown on labour organisations.
From 3 - 5 December, labour NGOs based in Guangdong province were targeted in a harsh and unexpected wave of detentions. At least four labour NGOs have been targeted and 25 NGO (…)
Two prominent labour activists have been formally detained by the Guangzhou authorities for “gathering a crowd to disturb social order,” in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown on labour groups in the city.
The director of the Panyu Workers’ Centre, Zeng Feiyang, and activist Zhu Xiaomei (…)
More than 15 labour NGO activists have been detained by the Chinese police in Guangzhou, Foshan and Beijing, just a few were released. Labour NGOs have played a significant role in supporting the Chinese migrant workers to defend their legal rights and promoting the rule of law in the country. (…)
Throughout the Global South, underpaid workers face wage theft and injury to meet Western consumers’ demands.
When the glass doors fly open this Friday, riotous crowds will spill into a tide of mass consumption at Walmarts nationwide. But amidst the frenzy, the bleak undertow of global (…)
Wal-Mart is the latest frontier in China’s nascent labor rights movement.
When Zhang Jun, a 44-year old electrician at Wal-Mart (China) Investment Co., Ltd. in Shandong, east of Beijing, shared his association’s Weibo blog, featuring a Mao-era propaganda poster, he was trying to make a point. (…)
China’s slowing economy, especially its weakening export sector, has framed the recent wave of labor protests in the manufacturing sector. Seven years after the Great Financial Crisis, China has been dealing with unstable export market in the North America and Europe. While the government puts (…)
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