CLB Calls for the Immediate Release of Political Activist Wang Guilan
CLB condemns the sentencing of Wang Guilan to re-education through labour on the spurious and arbitrary charge of “disturbing social order” during the Olympic Games, and calls for her immediate...
View ArticleAn alternative analysis of the Chinese government’s wage statistics
A casual glance at the Chinese government’s wage statistics indicates that wages have been increasing rapidly over the last decade. However a mainland blogger has posted a detailed analysis of the...
View ArticleThe state of the labour movement in China
CLB presents a detailed examination of the current struggle for workers’ rights in China at an international conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which...
View ArticleGuangdong tells prosecutors to go easy on bosses who commit “ordinary” crimes
In a clear sign that the authorities are willing to relax their enforcement of China’s labour laws during the economic crisis, the Guangdong provincial procuratorate has instructed its officers not to...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: The Chinese Migrant's Mindset
China Labour Bulletin appears in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher. March 12, 2009By ALEXANDRA HARNEY
View ArticleAuthorities fail to learn the lessons of state-owned enterprise reform
Two major strikes over the last two weeks have shown that some local governments and managements have still not learnt important lessons from the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at the...
View ArticleCLB quoted on the Tonghua Incident
China Labour Bulletin was extensively quoted by major news organizations, including Time and The Guardian, on the riot at a steel plant in Jilin that led to the death of a senior manager.
View ArticleBeijing to increase municipal minimum wage, pensions and welfare benefits
The Beijing authorities will on 1 January increase the city’s minimum wage for a second time in six months. The monthly minimum wage will go up by 200 yuan to 1,160 yuan, making it the highest in the...
View ArticleProtesting workers released after 25 days in detention still face possible...
Two workers were held in police detention for 26 days for allegedly imprisoning their factory manager in a dispute over unpaid pension contributions. They were eventually released on 29 April but the...
View ArticleWhy raising the retirement age is a bad idea for workers
It was no surprise that when the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) announced in early June that raising the retirement age for workers in China was unavoidable due to people’s...
View ArticleTeachers in China are prepared to take a stand against pension reform
The massive wave of teachers’ strikes in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang at the end of last year may have been just the beginning. The Heilongjiang teachers were unhappy with low pay and...
View ArticleWages and benefits for public sector workers said to increase after pension...
Just five days after the Chinese government announced ground-breaking reforms to the country’s pension system, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has stated that both wages and...
View ArticleReuters: China's slowdown spells trouble for migrant workers' pensions
China's flagging economy is making it harder for Beijing to mend holes in its pension system for 166 million of the country's migrant workers, a problem that contributed to a doubling in the number of...
View ArticleHousing fund reform angers workers in China’s factory to the world
The municipal government in Dongguan, China’s “factory to the world,” is making it more difficult for workers, already squeezed by the economic slowdown, to get their hands on their housing fund...
View ArticleChina takes a few tentative steps towards social security reform
China will lower employers’ contribution rates for work-related injury insurance and maternity insurance from 1 October this year, the State Council announced yesterday, 24 June.
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