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Women Workers in Lanzhou Chemical Corp Win Retirement Struggle

The government of the northwestern province of Gansu has agreed to stop a new retirement policy for women workers, in the wake of street protests waged by hundreds of women workers from the Lanzhou Chemical Corporation which began on 22 April, 2002.

ACFTU and Union Organizing

By Trini Leung, a research writer on Chinese labour and politics

Is Social Security the 'Solution' to the Labour Protests in North-Eastern China?

Reprinted with permission of ICFTU-Hong Kong Liaison OfficeIntroduction

Anshan Workers' Protest

(broadcast on 17 April, 2002)

CLB Press Release on Arrested Labour Activists in Liaoyang (2002-04-16)

16 April, 2002China Labour Bulletin Press ReleaseAnother Liaoyang Labour Leader Arrested

CLB Press Release on Detained Workers in Liaoyang (2002-04-11)

11 April 2002China Labour Bulletin Press ReleaseOn 11 April, 2002, Guo Xiujing, the wife of detained Liaoyang Ferroalloy Factory workers' representative Yao Fuxin, finally obtained official permission to visit her husband. Yao is being detained at a police lockup in Tieling city in Liaoning province. He is in ill health.

China Labour Bulletin press statement on the arrests of Liaoyang labour leader (2002-04-11)

China Labour Bulletin Press Statement11 April, 2002On 11 April, 2002, Guo Xiujing, the wife of detained Liaoyang Ferroalloy Factory workers' representative Yao Fuxin, finally obtained official permission to visit her husband. Yao is being detained at a police lockup in Tieling city in Liaoning province. He is in ill health.

6,000 Liaoning Miners, Guizhou Pensioners Protest

China Labour Bulletin has received reports that, during the second half of March, over 6,000 miners staged protests against the terms of their retirement and retrenchment in two cities of the north eastern province of Liaoning.

Crackdown on Labour Organizing in Liaoyang and Guangyuan

Days after thousands of workers in Liaoyang, Liaoning province and Guangyuan, Sichuan province staged strikes and street demonstrations against retrenchment and non-provision of social insurance, the government moved in para-military troops to stop the workers' actions. Leaders of the demonstrations were arrested.

ICFTU lodges complaint with ILO against China

ICFTU OnLine...064/280302/LB-JKIndependent labour leader feared critically ill or killed in custody...ICFTU lodges complaint with ILO against China

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