It is about time that the trade union did a much better job in representing workers interests in the food processing industry and that government officials started taking their duty of oversight seriously.
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In my blog, I seek to bring to a wider audience news and opinions in the Chinese media that might have gone unnoticed in the English language media.
I am CLB’s Communications Director and I blog from time to time on China labour issues that amuse, annoy or puzzle me.
As the editor of CLB’s Chinese language website, I introduce in my blog some of the initiatives we have taken to broaden our impact in mainland China. 07 June 2013
31 May 2013
The Chinese Dream has been analysed and interpreted in many different ways since President Xi Jinping first floated the idea at this year’s National People’s Congress. But perhaps the biggest difference is between how China’s workers and the official trade union see that dream.
23 May 2013
The Clean Clothes Campaign has offered a detailed response to my blog last week in which I criticised the actions of the garment industry thus far in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh.
20 May 2013
The final death toll at Rana Plaza was 1,127. It was by far the worst disaster in the centuries-long history of garment industry tragedies. Yet, the response of the international garment industry and the government in Bangladesh thus far has been to promise basic safety standards and workers’ rights that should have been in place years ago.