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Factory workers cannot rely on the local government; they need a union to...
The massive strike at the Yue Yuen shoe factory complex in Dongguan in April highlighted the growing demands of many workers in China for a decent pension and welfare benefits. Local governments and...
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Women factory workers in Guangzhou play hardball in negotiations with management
Management at a Guangzhou shoe factory got a nasty shock when their representatives sat down with three worker representatives on Tuesday to discuss the factory’s closure plan. Management’s lawyers...
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A village where no trees grow and men gasp for breath
After arriving by train in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, I got a taxi to the long-distance bus terminal.“Where are you headed when you get to the bus station?” my driver...
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Teachers in China are prepared to take a stand against pension reform
The massive wave of teachers’ strikes in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang at the end of last year may have been just the beginning. Like many public employees in poor rural areas, the...
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Students use crowd funding website to support worker activist in Guangzhou
When Chen Weixiang, a 22-year-old medical student from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, heard in January this year about the dismissal of local sanitation worker and labour activist Yu Wucang, he...
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Trade union official has callous and ignorant response to death of elderly...
When Yang Jinzhong, a 65-year-old sanitation worker in Chengcheng county, Shaanxi, was hit and killed by a motorcycle while at work sweeping the streets on 31 January, no one really paid any...
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Family demand justice for sanitation worker who died on the streets of Shenzhen
The sudden death of 54-year-old sanitation worker, Deng Deming, who collapsed while sweeping the streets of suburban Shenzhen in the early morning of 15 May, has galvanized his family and local labour...
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Xiangtan taxi drivers step up their campaign for a new kind of cab company
After setting up their own cab company earlier this year, a group of 51 taxi drivers in the central city of Xiangtan are stepping up their publicity campaign in a bid to win a formal operating licence...
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What the local trade union did in the wake of the Tianjin disaster
In the ten days since the Tianjin chemical warehouse explosion that has claimed more than one hundred lives, the local trade union has been busy providing the victims with “psychological consultations”...
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China’s official trade union takes a holiday in dreamland
While many workers in Europe were enjoying their six weeks annual leave over the summer, the Chinese government decided it would be a good idea if China’s workers had an extended weekend.The State...
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