Several thousand workers at the Hunan Coal Industry Group have entered the tenth day of a strike in a protest over the company’s proposed privatization and stock exchange listing plans.
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In July 2009, Zhang Haichao voluntarily underwent an operation to open up his chest in order to prove he was suffering from the fatal lung disease pneumoconiosis. Photograph of Zhang by Yanzhou Metropolis Daily
China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.A suicide in China has trained a spotlight on Apple and pressure-filled factories.
By David Pierson and Alex Pham
July 29, 2009
CLB's new research report on the workers' movement was published on July 9 2009.
The Wall Street Journal's China Journal and Reuters both gave the report prominent coverage, see below. While the trade union website Labour Start made the report one of its top stories for the week.
China Labour Bulletin has written to major electronics companies, including Apple, Nokia and Motorola, urging them to investigate reports of excessive overtime, management abuse and the firing of striking workers at Wintek Dongguan Masstop, one of their major suppliers in China.
The massive landslide at an iron ore mine in rural Chongqing on 5 June 2009, which may have killed more than 70 people, has once again highlighted the dangers China’s mines pose, not just to miners but to nearby communities and the environment as well.
The central government in Beijing last week sent an investigative team to Fengyang county in Anhui to examine media claims that at least 12 migrant workers from Yunnan have died from silicosis after working in the county’s stone crushing mills.
Fengyang officials claimed there was as yet insufficient evidence to prove that the Yunnan workers contracted silicosis from breathing in silica dust while blasting and crushing slabs of rock in the county’s factories.
China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.By Tom Mitchell in Dongguan
Published: March 4 2009 18:39
China’s latest coal mine disaster at the Tunlan mine in Shanxi, in which at least 74 miners died, tragically illustrates that it is not just the small, over-worked and unlicensed mines which the government has targeted for closure over the last few years that have safety flaws.
The Tunlan mine, in Gujiao county near the provincial capital Taiyuan, was part of the state-owned Shanxi Coking Group, China’s largest producer of coking coal, and had boasted of an excellent safety record, with no accidents reported in the last five years.
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Dozens of trapped miners have been rescued after a blast at the mine they were working in killed at least 74 people in China's worst coal mine accident in over a year.
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