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20 July 2011
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_strike_law_intro Even though strikes … frequently occur across China, the country actually has no law regulating labor strikes. There is no … law permitting strikes, but at the same time there is no law banning them. After the high-profile … strike wave in the automotive sector last year, a small number of public comments were published in … China, online and in the print media, discussing the question of whether or not there should be …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/62/strike+law
05 April 2011
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_ZhaoDongmin_intro This issue of CLNT … features the blogs of Zhu Chunsheng – a worker activist who since late 2010 has been resisting … the Harbin Passenger Railway’s efforts to lay-off staff and force remaining employees to sign … illegal contracts with worse conditions. He himself has been laid-off. Zhu claims the enterprise … union has refused to assist workers, and he is now calling for new union elections for real worker …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/61/zhu-chunsheng
10 January 2011
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_ZhaoDongmin_intro Against the backdrop … of Liu Xiaobo being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, this issue of CLNT highlights the case of … Zhao Dongmin – a labor lawyer and Maoist who on 25 October 2010 was sentenced to three years in … prison for applying to set up a workers’ organisation to monitor the privatization of state … enterprises and alert the authorities about cases of corruption. There are many worker activists and …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/60/zhao-dongmin
22 October 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_LiuRongli_2_intro In this issue we … document how through the effort of one individual worker in Beijing, Liu Rongli, a small workplace … union branch was set up successfully against all odds. This case demonstrates that there is some … support within the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) for workers to take the initiative … to set up their own union branches, within the parameters of China’s Trade Union Law. Five years …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/59/liu-rongli-2
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 … workers’ 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
04 March 2010
…Click here to download this introduction in PDF format CLNT_Tonghua_INTRO.pdf One the biggest … events in recent Chinese labor history was the workers’ protest at the Liaoning Iron and Steel … Plants. In this issue CLNT draws attention to yet another protest that also involved state workers … – the Tonghua Steel protest of 2009 in Changchun City, Jilin Province in northeast China that … was followed by another one in Linzhou Steel in Henan Province. How should we view this new wave of …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/52/tonghua
16 June 2009
…In this short installment of China Labor News Translations, we bring you the story of the dismissal … of union chair from a hotel building owned by the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions (GDFTU). This … profoundly ironic and deeply troubling story exploded in the Guangzhou media last month, and in … addition to some excellent reporting, there have been a number of high quality op-ed pieces harshly … criticizing the behavior of hotel management and the trade union. The story of Liu Yongyi, trade …
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/39/dismissal-of-union-chair