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TechEye: Pegatron boosts automation to ease losses

Pegatron, worried about higher worker costs and suffering sales, has announced it will be increasing automation at its plants. Taiwan-based design manufacturer Pegatron announced net losses of $29.8 million after its shipments of notebooks, netbooks and tablets dropped this year. It is expected that such shipments will decrease 10-15 percent in the fourth quarter, while motherboards and desktops will drop by 15-20 percent.

Workers’ future unclear as Foxconn announces plans for one million robots over the next three years

The announcement by electronics giant Foxconn on 30 July that it intends to automate much of its basic-level production by introducing one million robots over the next three years means an uncertain future for many of the company’s one million employees in mainland China.

New York Times: Bowing to Protests, China Halts Sale of Steel Mill

China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.By KEITH BRADSHER Published: August 16, 2009

As labour disputes rise 30 per cent in first half of 2009, courts emphasize stability

The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) announced on 13 July 2009 that labour disputes in China as a whole climbed by 30 percent in the first half of 2009. Certain areas saw sharper increases, with labour disputes in the first quarter of 2009 shooting up by 41.6 percent in Guangdong, 50.3 percent in Jiangsu, and a staggering 159.6 percent in Zhejiang.

Authorities fail to learn the lessons of state-owned enterprise reform

Two major strikes over the last two weeks have shown that some local governments and managements have still not learnt important lessons from the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at the turn of the century. The protests at the state-owned Golden Emperor Group textile plant in Chongqing’s Fuling district on 13 and 14 April, and the former state-owned Yimian textile factory in Baoding, Hebei, in the first week of April erupted for precisely the same reasons as in the majority of SOE privatization disputes a decade ago: wages arrears, inadequate compensation for lay offs and the misappropriation of assets by management.

China Labour E-Bulletin Issue No. 15 (2003-09-12)

In this Issue: 1. Editor's Note ******************************************************************************* Editor's Note In this Issue:1. Editor's Note

Conversation with a Retrenched Oil Worker in Daqing (1)

(Broadcast on 13 April, 2002)
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