Migrant workers without a labour contract go unpaid for nearly a year
The Labour Contract Law, implemented on 1 January 2008, mandates that all workers should have a written contract with their employer detailing the terms and conditions of their employment. However, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, in first year of the law’s enactment, more than 15 million Chinese workers had not signed a labour contract.
These included 15 rural migrant workers from (...)
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Workers in China
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Chaos, Disorder, and Mixing
26 mai 2009, par Robert ParisChaos, Disorder, and Mixing :
A New “Fin-de-Siècle” Image of Science ?
Amy Dahan Dalmedico.*
["Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siècle image of science ?" in M. Norton Wise (ed.), Growing Explanations : Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2004) 67-94.]
0. INTRODUCTION Chaos and the sciences of disorder or mixing concern particular disciplinary sectors (e.g., mathematics, fluid mechanics, physics, engineering science, etc.) (...) -
China : what syndicalist method ?
14 mai 2009, par Robert ParisACFTU in a time of crisis : Back to the old ways ?
Wed, 13 May 2009.
“For many workers it is almost impossible to find the ACFTU even if they wanted to”
Vikki Chan, IHLO in Hong Kong
[This is a slightly abridged version of an article chinaworker.info is publishing with the kind permission of the author and IHLO]
300% rise in labour disputes
Last September, the financial crisis spread to China. This had a direct impact on eastern and southern China, especially the export (...) -
EVOLUTION IN MODERN THOUGHT BY HAECKEL, THOMSON, WEISMANN AND OTHERS
16 April 2009Read here
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Textile workers in Chongqing block traffic in pay protest
14 April 2009, by Robert ParisTextile workers in Chongqing block traffic in pay protest
Tue, 14 Apr 2009.
Southwest China: 400 workers stage second day of protests over unpaid wages
chinaworker.info
Around 400 workers from Jindi Industry Group Co., a major state-owned textile company in Chongqing municipality protested over unpaid wages by blocking a main road on Monday 13 April. The workers told Xinhua that the protest, sustained late into the evening, was aimed at attracting government attention as they had (...) -
Worker’s rights in China
14 April 2009, by Robert ParisThe global economic crisis has prompted several Chinese officials to make short-sighted and reckless comments. In November 2008, the Guangdong union federation announced it would suspend collective bargaining in enterprises experiencing difficulties. And in January, that province’s procuratorate said it would go easy on bosses who committed “ordinary” crimes. However no comments have been more potentially damaging or retrograde than the assertion made by ACFTU Vice-Chair Sun Chunlan on 17 (...)
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Yunnan villages devastated by the deaths of stricken migrant workers
14 April 2009, by Robert ParisYunnan villages devastated by the deaths of stricken migrant workers
At least 12 migrant workers have died, and dozens more from the same Yunnan township are severely incapacitated after contracting a debilitating lung disease, whilst working at a stone crushing factory in Anhui.
From 2004 onwards, several hundred men from the three remote villages of Xiangjiaba township made the long journey to work at stone factory Guangou village, Anhui. They earned over 2,000 yuan a month for their (...) -
“No economy is falling faster than China’s at this moment”
1 April 2009, by Robert ParisChina: End of the economic ‘miracle’
Mon, 23 Mar 2009.
“No economy is falling faster than China’s at this moment”
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The first months of 2009 have seen a dramatic aggravation of the global capitalist crisis. This is confirmed by an unremitting flow of terrible economic data: surging unemployment, plunging industrial output, shrinking global trade, and a second wave (or is it the third?) of bank failures and bailouts. One crisis area, however, is causing (...) -
USA : No bonuses for bailed-out executives! No evictions or foreclosures.
1 April 2009, by Robert ParisNo bonuses for bailed-out executives! — popular outrage sweeping U.S.
Thu, 26 Mar 2009.
Anger at Wall Street bankers and other bailed-out executives has reached fever pitch in the U.S.
Patrick Ayers, socialistalternative.org
The latest bonus scandal involving executives at AIG has become the last straw. AIG paid out $165 million in bonuses this past week after receiving more than $170 billion in handouts and government backing. For what? Just a few weeks back AIG posted the single (...) -
Police attack workers’ protests in Chongqing and Zigong (Sichuan)
30 March 2009, by Robert ParisPolice attack workers’ protests in Chongqing and Zigong (Sichuan)
Mon, 16 Mar 2009. In western China security forces have cracked down on workers’ struggles in recent weeks
chinaworker.info
In Chongqing 800 workers have been occupying their abandoned textile factory for several months, as part of a long battle for unpaid benefits and compensation arising from the fake ’bankruptcy’ of the plant and its sale to speculators. In Zigong, a city in Sichuan province, police clashed with (...)