Items tagged with "foreign-companies"
Shunda Factory’s Rigged Trade Union Election
... CLNT has just secured a report from a production line worker, Worker ... (a pseudonym) at the Shunda factory which was the subject of CLNTs August 2007 posting, ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/29/shunda-factorys-rigged-trade-union-election · 19 March 2008
Democratic Trade Union election in Reebok Supplier Factory: Five Year Update
... Peter Lee, an independent labour researcher and activist in China’s Fujian province has ... us with a rare insight into the mid to long-term effects of so-called Corporate Social ... (CSR) projects adopted by major Western brands in an attempt to improve ... conditions in their supply factories. Lee’s is not the first critique of such ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/24/democratic-trade-union-election-in-reebok-supplier-factory-five-year-update · 25 August 2007
First KFC Trade Union Branch Established
... In March this year KFC, McDonalds and Pizza Hut were discovered by ... of a Chinese newspaper to be paying illegally low wages to their part-time and casual work-study ... in Guangzhou City (see CLNT posting Western Fast Food Chains violate ... wage laws). After much outcry from the public the issue fizzled out after a month because the two ... were able to make use of a loophole in the Chinese legal system that exempts work-study students ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/22/first-kfc-trade-union-branch-established · 13 August 2007
“Western Fast Food” chains violate minimum wage laws
... Discussion about workers rights and Labor Law in China has again come to focus on large ... companies. In February this year, a few journalists from Guangzhous New Express on their own ... went to investigate working conditions at McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut. ... of them posed as students and worked at several facilities. They found that all three fast-food ... were seriously underpaying their part-time employees. Under Chinese law, part-time employees are ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/17/western-fast-food-chains-violate-minimum-wage-laws · 26 May 2007
Trade Unions at Wal-Mart and Foxconn
... The ACFTU uses new grassroots organizing techniques to take on ... foreign enterprises This first round of translations from China Labor News Translations ... three Chinese newspaper articles, all related to recent trade union development in China. They ... the All-China Federation of Trade Union’s (ACFTU’s) now famous ... to establish trade union branches in Wal-Mart and Foxconn. 1. ‘Labors’ ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/4/wal-mart · 21 March 2007