Bosses and local officials jailed for factory fire that killed 121 workers...
Courts in the north-eastern province of Jilin have sentenced seven company bosses and eleven local officials to at most nine years in jail for their part in China’s worst factory fire in recent...
View ArticleFactory explosion in Foshan kills 17 as death toll in August’s Kunshan...
A series of massive explosions at a machinery factory in the southern city of Foshan this morning killed at least 17 workers. The incident occurred just hours after the Chinese government announced...
View ArticleContractor’s teenage daughter falls to her death in wage arrears protest
In the latest tragedy to hit China’s troubled construction industry, the 14-year-old daughter of a labour contractor, who was owed nearly a million yuan, fell to her death from the 16th floor of the...
View ArticleThe Economist: Out brothers, out!
Guangdong province pioneers a new approach to keeping workers happy
View ArticleSCMP: China's new collective bargaining rule is too weak to ease labour...
Aaron Halegua says Guangdong's failure to enact a strict regulation requiring employers to negotiate with disgruntled workers is a missed opportunity to stem the rising number of strikes
View ArticleTrade 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 attention.
View ArticleChina’s ageing construction workers and the urgent need for an industry overhaul
Major improvements in working conditions and hiring practices will be needed if new, younger workers are to join what is currently a dangerous, insecure and poorly paid profession.
View ArticleChina issues new regulations to protect workers at risk of occupational disease
New regulations on occupational health check-ups, which go into effect on 1 May, could give workers in hazardous professions greater protection from occupational disease as well as the legal tools they...
View ArticleMigrant worker in Nanjing cheated out of compensation and left to die
A young migrant worker, poisoned with benzene while employed at a petrochemical plant in Nanjing, is discarded and then ignored by company and local government officials.
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Wage Against the Machine: Deadbeat Employers to Face...
Faced with rising labor unrest stemming from unpaid wages among China’s legions of migrant workers, authorities in a key industrial province are proposing tougher laws to deter and punish errant...
View ArticleChina’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. Photograph:...
View ArticleFoxconn sacks Shenzhen workers for protest over social insurance payments
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has dismissed 16 workers at its massive Longhua facility in Shenzhen for staging a protest over the alleged non-payment of social insurance...
View ArticleTianjin disaster exposes China’s compensation lottery
The compensation the families of workers killed on the job get depends entirely on what the government or their employer is prepared to give them. There is no real negotiation: the families are...
View ArticleThe Diplomat: Wal-Mart Uprising: The Battle for Labor Rights in China
Wal-Mart is the latest frontier in China’s nascent labor rights movement.
View ArticlePregnant women workers struggle to defend their rights in China’s factories
Despite ample legal protection, most women who are fired when they become pregnant still struggle to defend their rights because they lack concrete evidence or cannot afford the time and money needed...
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