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18 July 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_Honda_intro.pdf One of the most … interesting dimensions of the recent strikes at three Honda auto components factories in the Pearl … River Delta region has been workersβ clearly articulated demand for their enterprise unions to be … elected by and accountable to workers. Their demands are uncommon, but not unprecedented. Back in … 2006, workers at the Ole Wolff electronics factory fought for a workersβ elected union in Yantai. …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/56/honda
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
24 March 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_tuibao_2010_INTRO.pdf In July 2008, … CLNT provided extensive analysis of how Chinaβs social security system was failing migrant workers β … especially when it comes to old-age pensions. Even though Chinese law requires old-age insurance for … all migrant workers, until recently, the funds in workersβ insurance account could not be … transferred between different cities and provinces. Hence when migrant workers returned home, or …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/53/social-security
13 July 2008
…By law, Chinese employers are required to contribute to a government-administered retirement … pension scheme for all employees. In theory, it sounds like this provides for some kind of security … for migrant workers in their old age. But there is a catch. Migrant workers are highly mobile. In … Guangdong province, for example, migrant workers only stay for an average of four to six years … (Peopleβs Daily, 8 January 2008) and in that time they may well move between several different …
20 February 2008
…Chinese New Year has just passed. Before New Year millions of migrant workers hope to take their … income and return to their hometown for reunions with their families after one yearβs hard work. … However, many of them have had to struggle for unpaid wages before they go home. In this issue, CLNT … has chosen three articles focused on the chronic social problem of owed wages in China. How serious … is the problem? We tried to find the exact statistics data but could not. On 26 December 2007, Sun …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/28/migrant-workers-and-the-chronic-problem-of-owed-wages