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03 June 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_Foxconn_intro.pdf Foxconn has been … notorious amongst Chinese labor activists for years. Its enormous size, the strict discipline … imposed on its employees and its cramped dormitories with 3-tiered bunk beds make it stand out from … other Chinese IT factories β not to mention the fact that it is the biggest manufacturer of … electronic and computer components in the world. But never has this Taiwanese corporate giant had to …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/55/foxconn
09 May 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_LiuRongli_intro.pdf Since the second … half of the 1990s, China has been through waves of privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) … in a drive to pave the way for a market economy. Previous issues of CLNT have focused on state … workersβ resistance to such cases of privatization such as the recent Tonghua Steel incident. This … issue will look at an interesting case where an ordinary worker has been persistently and creatively …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/54/liu-rongli
16 September 2009
…Student beaten by manager when he asked for his wages CLNT Editorial: 16 September 2009 Click here … to download this editorial in PDF format. This may make footnotes easier to read! CLNT Coca Cola … editorial In this issue of CLNT, instead of providing a translated article as usual, we bring you … the latest news from an unusual and groundbreaking campaign by mainland Chinese student activists, … in support of workers at Coca Cola bottling plants. In August 2008, students from several mainland …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/41/chinese-students-go-undercover-to-investigate-coca-cola
18 May 2009
…The attached document is a translation of the collective agreement in effect between one of the … individual unionized Wal-Mart stores in China and the responsible local trade union committee. It … represents the template agreement that has been followed by all of the unionized Wal-Mart stores in … China since July 2008. To put this agreement in global perspective, there is not a single collective … agreement at any Wal-Mart store in the USA, while in Canada the only existing agreement covering 180 …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/38/wal-mart-contract
10 March 2009
…A union struggle for union self-determination continues In October 2008, CLNT covered the case of … the Ole Wolff (Yantai) Trade Union, or OWYTU. The case was unique in several ways – the … workersβ tenacity in establishing their own union, in choosing their own union leadership, in … withstanding employer retaliation, in achieving a sympathetic local profile in the media and in … successfully forging solidarity links to the Danish trade union in the employerβs home country. For …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/37/ole-wolff-2
16 October 2008
…The case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd This case of unusual rank and file union activism in … China can be seen as both good and bad news. The good news is that, in the North-Eastern Chinese … port city of Yantai there are workersβ willing to struggle for two years for their right to form … their own union that will stand up for their rights. The bad news is that this struggle has taken a … heavy toll on union activists, at least seven of whom have been fired because of their union …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/35/workers-fight-to-save-their-union-activists
22 September 2008
…Disappointing news emerged on 17 September, that Gao Haitao – the only known Wal-Mart trade … union leader to have actively stood up for his membersβ interests, and the hero of Wal-Mart workers … in the nation – has resigned from his position out of frustration over Wal-Martβs refusal to … enter into genuine collective bargaining. On 14 July this year, the All China Federation of Trade … Unions (ACFTU) concluded the first collective union contract with Wal-Mart, in Shenyang city, in the …
20 August 2008
…Two years after the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) accomplished a breakthrough to set … up workplace unions in Wal-Mart stores, on 11 June this year, after holding a meeting in Beijing, it … announced that it would immediately launch a campaign to set up unions in at least 80 percent of the … Fortune 500 company headquarters and branches. Up until now only some 50 percent of these companies … have unions. This means that, including unions in these companyβs branches, more than 10,000 …
04 May 2008
…The trade unions in Chinese Wal-Mart stores are often dismissed as hollow shells set up by the All … China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) without workersβ involvement. But through monitoring … Chinese media and online blog discussions among Chinese Wal-Mart employees, CLNT has found workers … who take an active interest in their store union, and at least in one case, of an elected rank and … file trade union chair using the trade union platform to actively defend workersβ interests. While …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/30/draft
19 March 2008
…CLNT has just secured a report from a production line worker, Worker Ye (a pseudonym) at the Shunda … factory which was the subject of CLNTβs August 2007 posting, Democratic Trade Union Election in … Reebok Supplier Factory: Five Year Update. Ye reports that the Shunda union re-election took place … in October 2007 and that it was rigged. Candidates running for the union committee were … overwhelmingly supervisors and managers, and the positions of trade union chair, deputy chair and …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/29/shunda-factorys-rigged-trade-union-election
25 August 2007
…Peter Lee, an independent labour researcher and activist in China’s Fujian province has … provided us with a rare insight into the mid to long-term effects of so-called Corporate Social … Responsibility (CSR) projects adopted by major Western brands in an attempt to improve working … conditions in their supply factories. Lee’s is not the first critique of such CSR programs, … but it is possibly the first to chart their mid- to long-term effects in China. Peter Lee’s …
13 August 2007
…In March this year KFC, McDonalds and Pizza Hut were discovered by reporters of a Chinese newspaper … to be paying illegally low wages to their part-time and casual βwork-studyβ students in Guangzhou … City (see CLNT posting βWestern Fast Food Chainsβ violate minimum wage lawsβ). After much outcry … from the public the issue fizzled out after a month because the two companies were able to make use … of a loophole in the Chinese legal system that exempts βwork-studyβ students from the jurisdiction …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/22/first-kfc-trade-union-branch-established
26 May 2007
…Discussion about workersβ rights and Labor Law in China has again come to focus on large … multi-national companies. In February this year, a few journalists from Guangzhouβs New Express on … their own initiative went to investigate working conditions at McDonaldβs, KFC and Pizza Hut. … Several of them posed as students and worked at several facilities. They found that all three … fast-food outlets were seriously underpaying their part-time employees. Under Chinese law, part-time …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/17/western-fast-food-chains-violate-minimum-wage-laws
21 March 2007
…The ACFTU uses new grassroots organizing techniques to take on resistant foreign enterprises This … first round of translations from China Labor News Translations includes three Chinese newspaper … articles, all related to recent trade union development in China. They report the All-China … Federation of Trade Union’s (ACFTU’s) now famous campaign to establish trade union … branches in Wal-Mart and Foxconn. 1. ‘Laborβs’ Breakthrough at Wal-Mart 2. Talks between …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/4/wal-mart