Couriers Face Tough Working Conditions
At The New York Times, Ryan McMorrow looks at the harsh working conditions faced by China’s...
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Workers Publicly Shamed for Protesting Unpaid Wages
A court in Langzhong, Sichuan this week held an outdoor, public mass trial for eight migrant...
Workers Go Gangnam Style to Demand Unpaid Wages
The withholding of wages owed to migrant workers often sparks protest in China. In the lead-up to Spring Festival – the only time of the year that many migrant laborers have the chance to see their families – these...
Foxconn Plant Open, But Broader Issues Persist
Foxconn’s Taiyuan plant reopened on Tuesday morning after closing due to a worker riot, and the company expects little impact to production as it gets back to the business of assembling electronics for the likes of...
Child Protesters Reap Success For Migrant Workers
Children of migrant laborers who had long been owed wages from a tourism company in Dali, Yunnan province joined their parents in protest this week. The company received a court order to to pay up months ago, but refused to do...
Protesters Clash with Police in Southern China
After a migrant worker was stabbed in Chaozhou Guangdong, when he demanded his unpaid wages, hundreds of people clashed with police. AFP reports: Eighteen people were injured and nine were detained in Guangdong province’s...
China Warns Locals to Settle Migrant Pay Disputes
The central government has warned local officials that they need to settle disputes with migrant workers over unpaid wages before the Lunar New Year holiday, which starts on February 14. From AP: The rare urgent warning from the...
Migrant Workers Surround Boss’s BMW for Unpaid Wages
A group of migrant workers in Zhengzhou surrounded the construction project manager’s BMW to demand their wages, which they have not received for six months. ChinaHush translates an article from Zhengzhou Evening News: Not...
Music Series: “You Owe Me My Wages” and “Migrant Workers’ Blood and Sweat – Asking for Unpaid Wages”
The following song “You Owe Me My Wages” was composed and sung by Shi Yong, an Internet musician, after he saw many posts about migrant workers asking for their back wages. Shi said that he wanted to stand up for the weak....
China 2008: Human Rights
This next installment in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 concerns the state of human rights in China. See also these previous China 2008 articles: China and the Developing World, Nationalism, Internet...
Slideshows: Reflections on China’s Migrant Workers
Reflections in a Chinese Eye has two rich posts about the state of migrant workers in China’s urban centers today. The first, entitled ‘Systematic Government Theft of Migrant Workers’ Retirement...
My Heart Aches For The Vulnerable Ones
Guangzhou-based writer and blogger Hengjun Yang (杨恒均) wrote the following post on his blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. I had to exit the highway because of a traffic jam on my way back to Guangzhou after a trip to...
Why Migrant Workers Praise the Law
The Shanghai Daily News reports that migrant workers have some hope to resolve their woes with free legal assistance in the northwestern city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province. Running with a budget of less than 7,000 yuan...
Slideshow: New Year and New Unpaid Migrant Workers
On Feb 5, 2008, nine migrant construction workers, holding up signs that read “repay my blood and sweat,” (还我血汗钱) blocked the main road near Dabeiyao Bridge and Jianwai Soho in Beijing, causing serious traffic jams....
Photo: Migrant Workers Want To Be Paid – Wang Huicong (王惠丛) and Deng Wanli (邓万里)
From Henan Commercial Daily (河南商报), via people.com.cn: Migrant workers in Zhengzhou sleep in front of a contractor’s car in order to get their salaries paid on Jan. 4, 2008. This topic on the Web, via...
Wives of Sichuan Migrant Workers Team Up to Demand Their Husbands’ Wages – Huaxi Metropolis News
From Sichuan Net and Huaxi Metropolis News, translated by CDT: More than 20 women from Sichuan created a “Demanding Wages Wives Team” and went to Yunnan to seek more than RMB 200 million of their husbands’ hard-earned money. Two years ago, Tang Guangqiong and Liao Yi leased a construction project of the Mengxin highway for […]
China Strikers ‘Beaten by Thugs’ – BBC
Hundreds of migrant workers protesting over unpaid wages in Guangdong Province were beaten by thugs hired by their company, according to news reports. The AP is reporting that one protester was killed while Xinhua says no-one was killed but one man is in critical condition. From BBC: Nearly 300 workers went on strike last Friday […]
The Sub-Contractor Knelt Down In Front Of Us – Wei Zuwei
From the Southern Weekend, Feb 8, 2007, translated by ESWN: This is the end of the Chinese year again. The migrant workers are demanding their wages again. The sub-contractors are on the run again “with the money.”...
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