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An alternative analysis of the Chinese government’s wage statistics |
| A casual glance at the Chinese government’s wage statistics indicates that wages have been increasing rapidly over the last decade. However a mainland blogger has posted a detailed analysis of the statistics that explains the reality behind this rosy picture. Photo: Saffanna@flickr.com | |
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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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No Way Out: A report on the human cost of China’s economic miracle |
| A new report by CLB and Canada’s Rights and Democracy reveals how the lives of millions of workers were thrown into turmoil during the wholesale privatization of China’s state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Photo of abandoned SOE in Liaoning by Sonya@flickr.com | |
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CLB acts to help Sichuan Miner left alone to Die in Poverty |
| CLB is helping a retired miner in Sichuan with third-stage pneumoconiosis sue for work-related illness compensation after his boss, a local coal baron and parliamentarian, refused any payment. The trial began on 11 September 2008 at the Qu County People’s Court with the exchange of evidence. | |
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Union chair resigns over the imposition of collective contracts at Wal-Mart |
| One of the few union activists ever to stand-up to Wal-Mart management has resigned from his position as union chair at Wal-Mart’s Nanchang Bayi store after being by-passed in collective contract negotiations. - Photo by h.dot@flickr.com | |