Items tagged with "trade-union"
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
Cleaners want a union to protect their rights
... 11 rubbish workers in BaoAn district in outer Shenzhen have announced to their boss that they ... to start a union at their workplace. The initiative came from a 56 year old man, who has been ... in a union before at a garment factory where he worked as a warehouse manager. In one day, he ... together 10 of his co-workers – four men and six women, with an average age of 50 years and ... little formal education. Five of them are illiterate. According to this very brief report, ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/16/cleaners-want-a-union-to-protect-their-rights · 7 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