Items tagged with "foreign-companies"
Chinese students go undercover to investigate Coca Cola
... Student beaten by manager when he asked for his wages ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/41/chinese-students-go-undercover-to-investigate-coca-cola · 16 September 2009
The Bad and the Good of the Wal-Mart ACFTU Collective Agreement
... The attached document is a translation of the collective agreement in effect between one of the ... unionized Wal-Mart stores in China and the responsible local trade union committee. It represents ... template agreement that has been followed by all of the unionized Wal-Mart stores in China since ... 2008. To put this agreement in global perspective, there is not a single collective ... at any Wal-Mart store in the USA, while in Canada the only existing ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/38/wal-mart-contract · 18 May 2009
Ole Wolff (Yantai) Union Struggle Part Two
... A union struggle for union self-determination continues In October ... CLNT covered the case of the Ole Wolff (Yantai) Trade Union, or ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/37/ole-wolff-2 · 10 March 2009
Workers fight to save their union activists
... The case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd This case of unusual ... and file union activism in China can be seen as both good and bad news. The good news is that, in ... North-Eastern Chinese port city of Yantai there are workers willing to struggle for two years for ... right to form their own union that will stand up for their rights. The bad news is that this ... has taken a heavy toll on union activists, at least seven of whom have been fired because of their ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/35/workers-fight-to-save-their-union-activists · 16 October 2008
Promising Wal-Mart Trade Union Chair Resigns Over Collective Contract Negotiations
... Disappointing news emerged on 17 September, that Gao Haitao – the only known Wal-Mart trade ... leader to have actively stood up for his members interests, and the hero of Wal-Mart workers in the ... – has resigned from his position out of frustration over Wal-Marts refusal to enter into ... collective bargaining. On 14 July this year, the All China Federation of Trade Unions ( ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/34/promising-wal-mart-trade-union-chair-resigns-over-collective-contract-negotiations · 22 September 2008
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