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Three Guangdong factory workers and labour rights activists staged a demonstration outside the Tommy Hilfiger flagship store in Tsim Sha Tsui on Wednesday, asking the American clothes brand to pay their overdue severance after one of its contractors in Guangdong closed down.
Workers and labour (…)
Factory relocations and land privatizations have put Chinese migrant workers on the defensive.
Experts are saying the Chinese miracle is over, and while the country will probably avoid a full-blown economic crisis, the halcyon days of 8–10 percent annual growth are over.
As has been widely (…)
Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. By Lu Zhang Cambridge University Press, 2015, $95 cloth, paperback forthcoming in 2016.
Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China. By Eli Friedman Institute for Labor Research: Cornell University (…)
At least 114 people have died and about 70 are still missing five days after a series of massive explosions destroyed a warehouse in the north-eastern city of Tianjin on 12 August. The warehouse, located in the city’s New Binhai port district, was reportedly storing several hundred tonnes of (…)
Worker dormitories in Tianjin’s port area were reduced to twisted wreckage and emergency rooms were packed with injured migrants on Thursday, as the underclass of China’s economic boom bore the brunt of a series of giant blasts.
The explosions in Tianjin - one of which was equivalent to (…)
For eight months the workers at a footwear company in Guangzhou fought to claim their rights while their factory was being relocated. In spite of harassment and occasional violence, thanks to the support of a local NGO they were able to achieve an extraordinary victory.
Eight months of (…)
The Shanghai region is one of the most important motors of Chinese capitalism. However, the city’s political conservatism is as clear as its economic strength. Unlike cities in the Pearl River Delta, such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Shanghai rarely is the location of mass protests or sizeable (…)
China has changed a lot in twenty-five years, but there are still valuable lessons to be learned from the Tiananmen protesters.
In 1989, the news about protesters being massacred in Tiananmen Square reached my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, and I joined in a public art protest, with (…)
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. Founded in July 1990, the HKCTU, which consists of more than 90 affiliates, represents more than 190,000 members. It is a completely independent from any regime, political party, or consortium.
Since early (…)
Hong Kong activists influence migrant workers in nearby Guangdong to demand enforcement of China’s labor laws.
SYDNEY: It’s been chiseled into the minds of Chinese bureaucrats – they must “maintain social stability” to climb the career ladder. This amounts to a license for clamping down on (…)
Workers at a bike light factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike since April 30. They stayed overnight in the factory for two weeks, stopping production and delivery, until police evicted them and arrested leaders.
Workers who make bike lights at a factory in Shenzhen, China, have been (…)
I WAS rather disappointed with the interview with Ellen Friedman, headlined “Contours of the class struggle in China.”
To be sure, Friedman provides critical and effective insight of some of the conditions and processes affecting working-class struggle in China, and the facts that she provides (…)
Since the 2008 and the spread of the global economic crisis, China has experienced a sharp rise in class struggle, both in Hong Kong and on the mainland. Ellen David Friedman, a long-time organizer of the National Education Association in Vermont, founding member of the state’s Progressive Party (…)
Last month, thousands of workers at the Yue Yuen shoe factory in Dongguan in Southern China—a supplier to Adidas and other Western brands—walked off the job in a dispute with management over wages and benefits, clashing with police and jamming production.
A few years ago, such a major strike (…)
NANLANG TOWNSHIP, China — Timid by nature, Shi Jieying took a risk last month and joined fellow workers in a strike at her handbag factory, one of a surging number of such labour protests across China.
Riot police flooded into the factory compound, broke up the strike and hauled away dozens of (…)
Amid a wave of strikes, hopes for lasting workplace reforms.
The new militancy reflects the economic and social dislocations brought on in the last few decades with China’s embrace of a capitalist model of development.
As unions have struggled and strikes have declined in the United States (…)
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In 2014, on the eve of China’s national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. (…)
In December 26, 2014, four unidentified persons entered the Panyu Migrant Workers Documentation Centre (PMWDC). Zeng Feiyang, the head of PMWDC, was assaulted violently. His eyeglasses were broken and there were bruises near his right cheek bone. PMWDC called the police immediately and demanded (…)
Today (17th December, 2014), 20 representatives from Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), Globalization Monitor (GM), Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Union (HKCTU), CUHK Employees General Union, Citybus Limited Employees Union, Union of Hong Kong Dockers, Clothing (…)
The China Labour Bulletin, whose mission is to support the workers’ movement in China, has published a list of frequently asked questions about the state of labour laws and movements in the country. This includes questions about workers’ rights, freedom of association and the right to strike. (…)
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