- NewsCLB publishes news stories of particular relevance to our work in mainland China. New labour legislation and regulations, significant strikes and protests, breakthroughs in collective bargaining and union organizing, as well as news stories that affect our litigation work will be listed here.
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IBM case highlights work pressures in China’s hi-tech industries
30 Jun 2008 -
The Need for Legal Muscle to enforce China's Collective Labour Contracts
25 Jun 2008 -
Trade Union official says China is just one step away from the right to strike
17 Jun 2008 -
Shenzhen minimum wage reaches 1,000 yuan per month
05 Jun 2008 - Analysis and CommentaryCLB provides detailed analysis and expert commentary on major labour rights issues in China. In this section, we aim to give readers a greater understanding of and insights into the stories behind the headlines, as well as highlight issues of concern for workers in China.
- Feature ArticlesHuman interest stories can provide a unique and penetrating insight into complex problems. In this section we publish features that focus more on the human scale, allowing readers to understand important and often confusing issues through the lives of ordinary workers in China.
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Is corporate “wolf-culture” devouring China’s over-worked employees?
27 May 2008 -
Migrant Workers start to win significant compensation awards in the courts
23 Nov 2007 -
Students exploited by both schools and employers in summer work programmes
20 Aug 2007 -
Responding to Hepatitis B discrimination in the workplace
13 Jul 2007
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The Need for Legal Muscle to enforce China's Collective Labour Contracts |
| The lack of legal compulsion and the impotence of many enterprise level trade unions are making the implementation of the Chinese government's collective wage consultation system an uphill struggle, union officials in the central city of Luoyang have conceded. | |
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Railway workers “retired” on medical grounds fight back |
| In the late 1990s, China’s state-run railways laid off hundreds of thousands of workers as part of economic rationalization drive. The Shenyang Railway Authority devised a novel scheme whereby workers were retired “on medical grounds” even though many had never taken a day’s sick leave in their lives. | |
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The Price of Coal in China |
| CLB publishes a report on China's coal mining industry focusing on the industry’s appalling safety record, collusion between mine owners and local government officials, and the government’s system of post-disaster management, which is systematically eroding the rights of the bereaved. Photograph by Andi808 | |
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Responding to Hepatitis B discrimination in the workplace |
| More than 120 million Chinese, about ten per cent of the population, carry the Hepatitis B virus. They suffer from widespread and often insitutionalized discrimination. CLB is currently helping bring nearly 20 anti-discrimination law suits in the mainland. Photograph by Nako | |
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Trade Union official says China is just one step away from the right to strike |
| Workers in China do not have the constitutional right to strike. Yet, every day in the Pearl River Delta alone there is at least one major strike involving over a thousand employees and dozens of smaller strikes and stoppages. Photograph by Sebi | |