High profile strike at Zhongshan bag manufacturer enters tenth day
A bitter and at times violent dispute at a Japanese-owned handbag and luggage manufacturer in the Pearl River Delta town of Zhongshan entered its tenth day today.
View ArticleWorker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map logged record numbers of strikes and worker protests in the first quarter of this year, with a total of 650 incidents compared to 569 in the previous quarter.
View ArticleABC News: Strikes, protests on the rise in China, labour rights group says
Data from a Chinese labour advocacy group shows the reported number of strikes and protests have doubled every year since 2011.
View ArticleAt the sharp end of the workers’ movement in China: The Zhongshan Cuiheng strike
A month-long strike at a Japanese-owned bag manufacturer in the Pearl River Delta town of Zhongshan has been characterized by police violence, arrests and intimidation, and the absolute refusal of the...
View ArticleSCMP: Chinese labour activists 'increasingly targets of violent attacks,...
As China prepares to mark International Workers' Day, activists fear assaults likely to increase as number of industrial disputes rises
View ArticleStepping into the breach: labour groups start to take on the role of the...
In China Labour Bulletin’s new Chinese-language report on the Workers’ Movement in China, we focus on the growing importance of China’s civil society labour groups during a period of rapid social,...
View ArticleRFA: In China's Guangdong, 1,000 March on Labor Day Over Missing Paychecks
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong detained four people after around 1,000 workers at a local clothing factory took to the streets in protest on Friday, beating drums and holding...
View ArticleFive years on, Nanhai Honda workers want more from their trade union
Five years ago, on 17 May 2010, more than a thousand workers at Nanhai Honda in Foshan walked off the job, initiating a ground-breaking strike that came to symbolize the rise of the workers’ movement...
View ArticleLaborNotes: Chinese Bike Light Strikers Occupy Factory, Face Firings and Arrests
Workers who make bike lights at a factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike since April 30, demanding that the company pay up what it legally owes them.
View ArticleAFP: Why China’s factory workers are slowly winning their battle for stronger...
Increasing prosperity on the mainland and changing demographics giving more power to factory staff as number of industrial disputes rises
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Wage Against the Machine: Deadbeat Employers to Face...
Faced with rising labor unrest stemming from unpaid wages among China’s legions of migrant workers, authorities in a key industrial province are proposing tougher laws to deter and punish errant...
View ArticleThe Lide shoe factory workers’ campaign for relocation compensation
A case study of the challenges faced by factory workers dealing with management and the local authorities, as well as trying to maintain solidarity during a long-drawn-out struggle.
View ArticleWage growth for China’s lowest-paid workers continues to lag behind
Wage growth for China’s lowest-paid workers continued to slow this year with less than half of the 32 regions with the authority to set their own minimum wage levels announcing an increase thus far.
View ArticleTensions rise as China’s taxi drivers and factory workers strike in record...
China’s taxi drivers and factory workers took the lead in staging strikes and protests across the country in the second quarter of 2015 as threats to their livelihood continued to mount.
View ArticleThe tide begins to turn: Migrant workers find new opportunities closer to home
Two film makers document the lives of two rural migrant worker families from central China who are turning their back on the big city. Photo. Yangtze River at Badong by Bernd Thaller.
View ArticleSacked labour activist continues to push for workers’ trade unions
Zhu Xiaomei has used her own struggle and experience in standing up to her employer to help drive China’s workers’ movement forward and emerge as one of most dynamic labour activists in the Pearl River...
View ArticleGuangdong’s workers mobilize to protect leaders from arrests and reprisals
As industrial unrest in China intensifies, worker activists in Guangdong are seeking more effective ways to counter management reprisals and arrests or detentions by the local police.
View ArticleFactory workers feel the full impact of China’s “natural disasters”
An investigation by CLB shows that the Pearl River Delta factories hit by tornadoes this month were poorly constructed and had no emergency evacuation plans, and that many workers did not have medical...
View ArticleWalmart workers in China push for genuine trade union elections
Walmart workers in Shenzhen are stepping up their efforts to hold the company’s first-ever democratic trade union election, nine years after Walmart first agreed to allow trade unions in its China stores.
View ArticleCollective action gets Guangzhou sanitation workers direct employment contracts
Sanitation workers in Guangzhou have taken collective action to curtail the use of agency labour in the industry and force their district’s new contractor to sign employment contracts directly with them.
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