Financial Times: Chinese factory told to reimburse striking workers
A local government in China has determined that the world’s largest manufacturer of sports shoes which supplies Adidas and Nike should reimburse striking workers for underpaying their pension...
View ArticleReuters: China labor activist freed, says will still help strikers
A Chinese labor activist has been freed after being detained for more than two days by security agents who he says tried to convince him not to make contact with workers involved in China's biggest...
View ArticlePressure from the local authorities forces many Yue Yuen strikers back to work
Many strikers at the Yue Yuen shoe factory complex in Dongguan to have returned to work after the company made several concessions and the local authorities increased pressure on the workers to accept...
View ArticleLawyer for detained labour activist calls on police to handle case in...
Shenzhen labour activist, Lin Dong, who was arrested on 22 April after advising striking workers at the Yue Yuen shoe factory in Dongguan, is being held under a 30-day detention order at the Dongguan...
View ArticleLa Vanguardia: Los trabajadores chinos, cada vez más conscientes de sus...
China, país de régimen comunista, no celebra la fiesta del trabajo con marchas en sus calles, pero sus trabajadores comienzan a ser más conscientes de sus derechos laborales y están más dispuestos a...
View ArticleThird hearing in trial of labour activist Wu Guijun gets underway in Shenzhen
After nearly a year in detention, labour activist Wu Guijun was back in court on 12 May to listen to yet more witness statements and cross-examination in the third instalment of his long-running trial.
View ArticleWorkers’ leader vows to fight on after release from nine months’ detention
Labour activist Meng Han walked out of a Guangzhou detention centre a free man yesterday after serving a nine month sentence for “assembling a crowd to disrupt public order.”
View ArticleLabour activist Lin Dong released after 30 days detention in Dongguan
After 30 days in detention, labour activist Lin Dong was released late Wednesday evening and today was already back at work in the Chunfeng Labour Dispute Service Centre in Shenzhen.
View ArticleShenzhen authorities drop charges against labour activist Wu Guijun
After three court hearings and more than a year in detention, the Shenzhen Procuratorate has dropped its charges against labour activist Wu Guijun, Wu confirmed today. Wu had earlier been released on...
View ArticleFinancial Times: China drops charges against labour activist Wu Guijun
Chinese prosecutors have dropped charges against a labour activist in southern Guangdong province, in a case widely seen as a litmus test of official tolerance for the country’s increasingly robust...
View ArticleMeng Han: A labour activist forged in battle now looking to the future
Meng Han spent nine months in jail after fighting for the rights of his co-workers at a Guangzhou hospital. He now wants to help nurture a new generation of workers’ leaders in China.
View ArticleStrikes and worker protests gain momentum in China as economy stutters
Strikes and worker protests in China continued to gather pace in the second quarter of 2014 as workers demanded higher pay, social security, wages in arrears and compensation for factory relocations...
View ArticleSCMP: Guangdong collective bargaining proposal seen as bellwether for China
Labour regulations proposed in Guangdong would establish a legal framework for collective negotiations between workers and management
View ArticleSCMP: What is Beijing up to? Summer of increased harassment, surveillance...
Weekly visits and random questioning by local police officers are not unusual for the Shenzhen Chunfeng Labour Disputes Centre in Guangdong province. This summer, though, has been different, says Zhang...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: China Cracks Down on Foreign Nonprofits
China Labour Bulletin is quoted in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.By JOSH CHIN March 6, 2015 BEIJING—For three years, Tim Millar worked with Chinese researchers...
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 ArticleGlobe and Mail: In southern China, villagers raise their own banners in fight...
Banners are one of China’s best-loved propaganda tools. In every city and town, large fabric scrolls extoll the virtues of harmony, stability, civilized development and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
View ArticleLabour activists detained for doing the job of the trade union
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...
View ArticleLawyers prevented from seeing Zeng Feiyang and other detained labour activists
The Guangzhou authorities are citing “national security” concerns in order to prevent lawyers from seeing Zeng Feiyang (see photo below) and other detained labour activists.
View ArticleSenior county officials dismissed after second major work accident in two months
The Party Secretary and county head in Pingyi, Shandong, have both been dismissed in the wake of the 25 December gypsum mine collapse in the county which left one miner confirmed dead and 17 still...
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