The Key to Eliminating Coalmine Accidents is to Get Workers Involved in Monitoring Occupational Health and Safety: Some Thoughts after the 7 August Daxing Mine Disaster
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China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher Mine owners hid 17 bodies after blastInvestigation into Shanxi accident reveals cover-up SHIRLEY WU and AGENCIES in Beijing15/07/2005
June 4 Special Issue: Jailed in China for Defending Workers' Rights Contents: REMEMBERING JUNE 4, 1989 AND THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS IN CHINA A LIST OF IMPRISONED LABOUR RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN CHINA AN INTERVIEW WITH LABOUR RIGHTS LAWYER XU JIAN
Throughout China, workers are denied their basic rights to freedom of expression and association Independent trade unions are not allowed in China - there is only one state run union – The All China Federation of Trade Unions.
Many hundreds of workers have been detained and sentenced to long prison terms throughout China simply for trying to promote and protect their rights.
Over 10,000 workers of the Japanese-invested Uniden Electronics factory in Fuyong Town, Shenzhen, have been staging a massive strike action since 17 April 2005 in an effort to win the right to set up their own trade union in the factory. To China Labour Bulletin's knowledge, this is the first time Chinese workers have ever staged a strike specifically in order to form a trade union.
22 April 2005 MORE THAN 10,000 STRIKING WORKERS AT JAPANESE-INVESTED WAL-MART SUPPLIER FIRM IN SHENZHEN DEMAND RIGHT TO SET UP THEIR OWN TRADE UNION
China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher. Joe McDonald Associated Press 21 April 2005
More than twenty textile workers detained by the police in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, in October 2004 for their involvement in a protracted mass strike action against new and unfair labour contracts have reportedly all now been freed.
20 April 2005XIANYANG TEXTILE WORKERS DETAINED FOR LEADING HISTORIC SEVEN-WEEK STRIKE ARE RELEASED WITHOUT CHARGE
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