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Life in Gansu’s villages goes from bad to worse
Life has always been hard for the villagers of Gulang county in Gansu. But now it has got a lot worse. Many of the young men who went down the mines in order to earn a little extra cash for their families are now middle-aged men suffering from the chronic and fatal lung disease pneumoconiosis. They are unable to work and are crippled by debt from their medical bills. Photograph of Gansu by Ambling Sheep
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Will the New Year see a resumption of collective bargaining in China?
As the Chinese economy recovers, an influential magazine calls on the government and trade unions to take concerted measures to alleviate the growing conflict between workers and management. Photo. Onekel
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Safety first or wages first - A construction site dilemma
Han Dongfang talks to a building sub-contractor who knew his contractor had used cheap cement but rather than report the hazard to the authorities, he used the evidence to blackmail the contractor into paying the wages his workers were owed.
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Going it alone: a report on the state of the workers' movement in China
CLB looks at how the workers’ movement in China has developed over the last two years, how the government has responded to it, and why the official trade union has been unable to play a positive role in it. Photo by Saad Akhtar
News
  • Minimum wage set to increase in cities across China
  • Brick factories in Hubei continue to use forced labour despite “crackdown”
  • Coal mine accidents, deaths reportedly down by about 20 percent in 2009
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  • Life in Gansu’s villages goes from bad to worse
  • Call for fairer treatment for migrant children in Beijing goes unheeded
  • Radio Labour's "Solidarity News" Project launched
Labour Rights Litigation
  • An introduction to CLB's labour rights litigation work
  • Justice eventually for hotel worker dismissed with no compensation after two decades of service
  • Job seeker successfully sues hospital for violation of right to privacy
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