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