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China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher. Chinese factories struggle to hire Paul Wiseman USA Today 11 April 2005
Dust fills the air as thousands of workers, most of them from poverty-stricken provinces, are hunched over their workbenches in foreign invested factories in southern China polishing semi-precious stones which will be sold in luxury shops overseas.
Sixty miners were killed in an explosion on 19 March at the Xishui Colliery in Shouzhou City, a major coalmining area in Shanxi Province, and another ten miners are currently still missing. Four of the mine’s owners have been detained by the police, state media reported.
Eighty-three automobile workers from Chongqing have collectively sued the official municipal federation of trade unions for neglect of its legal responsibilities, although the court has not yet officially endorsed the lawsuit.
A total of 6,027 miners were killed in 3,639 coalmine accidents in 2004, according to the latest government statistics.
China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher.A tale of two countries
About 40,000 farmers staged protests last week against a dam project in the southwestern province of Sichuan. 100,000 villagers homes would be flooded if the plan went ahead, according to media reports.
About 3,000 workers protested outside the Computime factory in Shenzhen on the morning of 6 October, blocking road traffic for four hours, in an effort to press the companys management to ameliorate their exploitative conditions of employment.
In this Issue: 1. LABOUR DISPUTES & ACTIONS - 1,000 Military Police Force into Former PLA Factory in Chongqing 2. UPDATES ON THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF IMPRISONED LIAOYANG WORKERS - Xiao Yunliang Receives Operation to Save Eyesight, then is Sent Back to Prison 3. COURT PROCEEDINGS
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