The Archive
June 2012
March 2012
September 2011
- The Dispatch Labor System in China Questioned
- Tags acftu, china, law, migrant workers, trade union, wages, working hours
- Change of editor
- Tags
July 2011
- Should China create a law on strike?
- Tags acftu, china, honda, law, state sector, strike, trade union
April 2011
- Worker fights downsizing at Harbin Railway, and demands a democratic union
- Tags acftu, china, lay-offs, railway workers, SOE, state sector, trade union, transport workers, unemployment
January 2011
- Labor lawyer imprisoned in Xi’an for organizing against corrupt privatization of state enterprises
- Tags acftu, china, corruption, law, prison, SOE, state sector, trade union
October 2010
- Beijing Worker Takes Initiative to Establish Union in Privatized State Enterprise
- Tags acftu, china, corruption, SOE, state sector, trade union
September 2010
- Guangzhou and US unions discuss the politics of global supply chains: is this an example of constructive engagement?
- Tags acftu, china, CSR, foreign companies, international solidarity, trade union
July 2010
- The Nanhai Honda strike and the union
- Tags acftu, china, honda, migrant workers, strike, trade union, wages
June 2010
- Chinese responses to Foxconn suicides
- Tags csr, foreign companies, international solidarity, migrant workers, wages, working hours
May 2010
- Workers Challenge "Privatization for the Elite"
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, state sector, trade union
March 2010
- Migrant workers protest against poorly managed social security reforms in Guangdong
- Tags law, migrant workers, social security, wages
- Anti-privatization protests at Tonghua Steel
- Tags state sector, trade union, violence
January 2010
- Chinese Labor NGOs and Free Legal Services Always in a Precarious Situation
- Tags law, ngo
December 2009
- Dagongzhe Migrant Workers’ Centre fights on despite violent attack
- Tags international solidarity, ngo, violence
October 2009
- The Wenling Model: an experiment in trade-wide collective bargaining
- Tags acftu, trade union, wages
September 2009
- Chinese students go undercover to investigate Coca Cola
- Tags csr, foreign companies, international solidarity, violence
July 2009
- The “Migrant Worker Commander”: Zhang Quanshou and the Quanshun Labor Dispatch Company
- Tags wages, working hours
June 2009
- The dismissal of union chair Liu Yongyi from the Guangdong Federation of Trade Union’s own hotel building
- Tags acftu, state sector, trade union
May 2009
- The Bad and the Good of the Wal-Mart ACFTU Collective Agreement
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, international solidarity, trade union
March 2009
- Ole Wolff (Yantai) Union Struggle Part Two
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, international solidarity, trade union
January 2009
- Taxi Drivers Strike and Want To Set Up Their Own Associations
- Tags trade union
October 2008
- Workers fight to save their union activists
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, international solidarity, trade union
September 2008
- Promising Wal-Mart Trade Union Chair Resigns Over Collective Contract Negotiations
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, trade union
August 2008
- The Chinese Trade Union’s Big Rush to Set Up Unions in Fortune 500 Companies
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, trade union
July 2008
- Systematic government theft of migrant workers’ retirement pensions
- Tags law, migrant workers, wages
May 2008
- The Emergence of Real Trade Unionism in Wal-Mart Stores
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, trade union
March 2008
- Shunda Factory’s Rigged Trade Union Election
- Tags acftu, csr, foreign companies
February 2008
- Migrant Workers and the Chronic Problem of Owed Wages
- Tags migrant workers, wages
January 2008
- Labor NGOs in Guangdong Province
- Tags law, ngo
December 2007
- Shenzhen Labor Activist Attacked
- Tags law, NGO, violence
November 2007
- A new precedent: Shenzhen furniture factory worker wins two years overtime back pay
- Tags law, wages, working hours
August 2007
- Democratic Trade Union election in Reebok Supplier Factory: Five Year Update
- Tags CSR, foreign companies, trade union
- First KFC Trade Union Branch Established
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, trade union
June 2007
- “Change to Win” delegates visit China
- Tags acftu, international solidarity
May 2007
- “Western Fast Food” chains violate minimum wage laws
- Tags foreign companies, law, wages
- Cleaners want a union to protect their rights
- Tags acftu, trade union
March 2007
- Trade Unions at Wal-Mart and Foxconn
- Tags acftu, foreign companies, trade union