SCMP: China's new collective bargaining rule is too weak to ease labour...
Aaron Halegua says Guangdong's failure to enact a strict regulation requiring employers to negotiate with disgruntled workers is a missed opportunity to stem the rising number of strikes
View ArticleWall Street Journal: A Shot at Solving China’s Angry Worker Problem
Labor unrest is on the rise in China and likely to increase as the leadership grapples with a dangerous combination of an economic slowdown and the lack of effective institutions to cope with worker...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Not Part of the Bargain: Chinese Premier’s Speech Omits...
Sputtering economic growth may have claimed a new victim in China’s policy toolkit: Promoting collective bargaining among the country’s vast and increasingly disgruntled workforce.
View ArticleChina’s labour groups need to be in line with the needs and demands of workers
The veteran labour lawyer and advocate for collective bargaining Duan Yi has called on China’s labour groups to work together to better serve the interests of China’s workers.
View ArticleMcGill International Review: The Rise of Collective Bargaining and the Labour...
Workers of the World Unite…But don’t disturb social stability:
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 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 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 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 ArticleAP: China Workers Contracted by Uniqlo Strike Over Plant Closure
More than 300 Chinese workers at a garment factory that supplies international brands such as Uniqlo have been protesting for about two weeks what they say is a unilateral decision by the management to...
View ArticleIn These Times: In China, Walmart Is Unionized, But Workers Have No Power on...
Almost 10 years after Walmart was forced to accept unionization of its stores in China, the U.S.-based merchandising giant continues to deny basic collective bargaining rights to its Chinese retail...
View ArticleMint Press: Wal-Mart is eating the Earth
We attended a recent panel discussion on how Wal-Mart workers are organizing -- or failing to organize -- to protect their rights everywhere from “Bentonville to Beijing.”
View ArticleRemembering the sacrifice of Shenzhen factory worker Zhou Jianrong
To mark the first anniversary of the death of factory worker Zhou Jianrong, China Labour World issued a statement commemorating her sacrifice and calling on China’s workers to overcome their...
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 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.
View ArticleWorkers speak out in support of detained labour activists in Guangdong
A group of labour activists held in detention for more than a month have been subjected to a vicious smear campaign in China’s state-run media. Many workers have now spoken out in their defence and...
View ArticleA letter to the People’s Daily on China Labour Bulletin’s work with labour...
China Labour Bulletin Director Han Dongfang responds to the arrest of labour activists in Guangdong and the state media’s smear campaign against them.
View ArticleLabour activist Zhu Xiaomei released after two months in detention
Two months after a dozen police broke into her apartment and dragged her away in front of her one-year-old daughter and teenage son, labour activist Zhu Xiaomei returned home on the evening of 1 February.
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