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Teenage worker arrested after allegedly stabbing boss to death

A seventeen-year-old worker is in detention after stabbing his boss more than 30 times in a dispute over unpaid wages, the mainland media has reported. The young worker, surnamed Wang, had been employed for two months at a small factory in the northeastern city of Jilin. He had been promised a salary of 500 yuan a month but had only been paid 300 yuan for two months work. He made repeated demands for his due wages but was always rebuffed by the boss.

Collective contract highlights problems of underpaid hospital workers in China

The Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions will next year press for the unionization of the capital’s more than 30,000 hospital supply workers, and the establishment of collective contracts with labour supply companies. The union federation announced last week that Beijing’s largest hospital labour supply company, Huijiafeng, had signed a collective labour contract with the district trade union, stipulating that, in 2011, the minimum wage for company employees would be 1,300 yuan per month or 55 yuan per day

SCMP: Mechanism to set delta wage floor urged

Hong Kong manufacturers with factories across the border are lobbying the Guangdong government for a mechanism to determine minimum- wage rises to head off demands for bigger pay packets.

Guangdong ponders another increase in the minimum wage

The Guangdong authorities are considering a further increase in the minimum wage, after a 21 percent increase six months ago failed to resolve the province’s on-going labour shortage.

Foxconn workers in Foshan strike over low pay

Several thousand workers at a Foxconn affiliate in Foshan staged a strike on Monday 15 November. According to the Workers’ Forum network, the primary cause of the protest at Foxconn Premier Image Technology was the dissatisfaction of skilled workers over a planned pay rise, which would see the basic pay of both production line workers and skilled workers increase to 1,400 yuan a month.

USA Today: Wages, conditions improve as workers in China form unions

In many ways, Lan Yimin represents the new generation of Chinese factory workers. She wants fair working conditions. Time off to socialize. And a job that pays enough so she can open a milk tea business one day.

Sanyo workers in Shenzhen stage strike

More than a thousand workers at Sanyo Huaqiang Laser Electronics in Shenzhen’s Longhua district staged a one day strike last week over working conditions and a planned merger with a factory in another district in downtown Shenzhen.

Wage increases quiet worker protest - for the time being

Strikes and increases in the minimum wage of more than 20% have eased some of the pressure felt by China’s poorest paid workers this year but their income is still far from being a decent wage. Photo. S J Photography.

SCMP: Hong Kong-owned factories in delta win concessions on labour rules

The Shenzhen municipal government has made concessions to Hong Kong factories over proposed rules intended to allow migrant workers to negotiate pay rises and welfare matters. But while discussions about the eventual shape of the labour rules continue, a study has found that the Hong Kong factories need to reinvent themselves to face new challenges.

Scholars, unionists and bosses debate collective bargaining

In the wake of Guangdong’s decision to postpone new collective bargaining legislation, a conference in Hong Kong yesterday discussed the key issues surrounding collective bargaining and the future of labour relations in China. Jointly organized by Hong Kong University and Shenzhen University, the conference was attended by scholars, lawyers, workers, labour activists and representatives of the business community from mainland China and Hong Kong.

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