Worker and Trade Union Rights in China

Working Conditions

This section covers occupational health and safety, wages, working hours and other relevant issues.

Title	Date
The Suicide Tragedies of Chinese Migrant Workers at Foxconn	May 2010
Foxconn Suicides: Governments and Companies Must Face Responsibilities	May 2010
The three-day strike at Huizhou Power Pack Batteries Ltd. (08 -10 Dec 2009)	December 2009
Detained and beaten after protests: Foshan workers producing for Siemens-Osram urgently seeking redress - Worker held incommunicado for five months	May 2009
ITUC : Support Grows for 28 April Campaign to protect Chinese workers from cadmium [Workers' Memorial Day]	April 2009
Update on the labour unrest at Gold Peak’s JetPower Plant in Shenzhen - Two women workers placed on mandatory ‘long term leave’ after staging a sit in at JetPower	April 2009
Baoding workers' rally: Harbinger of a Long March?	April 2009
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY 2009: Gold Peak, Maersk and Asbestos	April 2009
Maersk Dongguan: A sorry story of repression, deceit and dismissal : Open letter from workers	April 2009
Maersk Dongguan: Letter from sacked worker	April 2009
Struggle against Cadmium Poisoning at Gold Peak Holdings continues: JetPower workers protest	April 2009
Letter to Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd regarding JetPower April 2009	April 2009
The six-day strike at Shenzhen JetPower Batteries Ltd.	March 2009
Collective Contracts, Consultation and Bargaining: “Imagining what is possible, tempered by what is likely within "Chinese conditions"	March 2009
Updates to collective bargaining and collective contracts: New laws - same deal?	February 2009
“The Motives behind revising the Implementing Regulations for the Trade Union Law”	November 2008
Fast food index	October 2008
‘Average’ wage versus ‘minimum’ wages in selected cities in China	October 2008
Decent Work, Decent life: China Hong Kong and Macau - Core principles: Wages and working hours	October 2008
Implementing regulations for the New labour contract law	September 2008
Labour contract law: Implementing regulations finally issued - suprisingly neutral	September 2008
“There is corruption behind every mine disaster”: Death toll rises to over 250 in deadly mudslide from illegal iron ore mine	September 2008
Spate of mine deaths reveals failure of attempts to reduce ‘accidents’ and illegal mines	September 2008
New Labour Contract Law: Myth and reality	June 2008
Deaths of two Chinese migrants in Equatorial Guinea: False promises and no redress	June 2008
2008 International Commemoration Day (ICD)	April 2008
Labour Contract law (full text of English translation)	March 2008
New Draft Contract Law: Serious problems emerge - Striking workers to be dismissed	December 2007
Labour Shortages in China: No longer an isolated occurrence but looming nationwide	November 2007
Give it or we leave it: migrant workers’ quest for higher legal minimum wages	November 2007
Education: Apathy and exploitation stifle a key profession	November 2007
A short overview of the use of piece rates in China	September 2007
No end in sight for deadly accidents that claim thousands of lives: The case of Huayuan coalmine – Not a “natural disaster”.	September 2007
Plight of hepatitis B virus carriers in China : Recent cases and campaigns	September 2007
Fatal mining accident in a prison camp reveals treatment of prisoner miners	June 2007
400 slaves rescued from brickworks	June 2007
Health and Safety in China: Hats, shoes, gloves and masks…	January 2007
Hong Kong Standard (newspaper) reports on Gold peak workers struggle and demonstration	September 2006
ICFTU Appeal to Gold peak for its AGM in September 2006	September 2006
ICFTU Appeal on legal action against Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions	July 2006
ICFTU Letter to Gold Peak July 2006	July 2006
The Truth behind the Gems: Interview with two jewllery workers suffering from Silicosis	January 2006
Letter to Gold Peak urging them to provide proper compensation for workers	December 2005
The rise of local Protectionism and its impact of OSH Compensation	November 2005
Update on Cadmium Poisoning of Gold Peak Battery workers - Business is Business in Hong Kong	October 2005
Huizhou Cadmium struggle for redress shows there is no compensation for trade unions	August 2005
Huizhou Battery Workers Fight for Compensation	September 2004