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The latest 15 record

Migrant workers and their children suffer most in China's turbulent economy
10 Oct 2008
New study exposes the human cost of China's economic miracle
25 Sep 2008
CLB acts to help Sichuan Miner left alone to Die in Poverty
11 Sep 2008
A Turning Point for China's Trade Unions
20 Aug 2008
Shenzhen – Leading the Way
09 Jul 2008
June 4: A Time for Unity, a Time for Reconciliation
04 Jun 2008
From Shanxi to Dongguan, slave labour is still in business
21 May 2008
Labour Arbitration Law welcome but systemic change, investment needed
23 Apr 2008
The Price of Coal in China
17 Mar 2008
Official union must back new migrant worker legislators
04 Mar 2008
Getting a decent wage and benefits: An uphill task for workers in China
21 Feb 2008


	Shenzhen labour regulations modified with some gains and some losses for workers
	The Regulations on the Promotion of Harmonious Labour Relations in the Shenzhen SEZ, approved on 23 September 2008, contain some beneficial additions but some important clauses have been removed. Photo of Shenzhen factory workers by Chad Ingraham.


	Railway workers “retired” on medical grounds fight back
	In the late 1990s, China’s state-run railways laid off hundreds of thousands of workers as part of economic rationalization drive. The Shenyang Railway Authority devised a novel scheme whereby workers were retired “on medical grounds” even though many had never taken a day’s sick leave in their lives.


	No Way Out: A report on the human cost of China’s economic miracle
	A new report by CLB and Canada’s Rights and Democracy reveals how the lives of millions of workers were thrown into turmoil during the wholesale privatization of China’s state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Photo of abandoned SOE in Liaoning by Sonya@flickr.com


	CLB acts to help Sichuan Miner left alone to Die in Poverty
	CLB is helping a retired miner in Sichuan with third-stage pneumoconiosis sue for work-related illness compensation after his boss, a local coal baron and parliamentarian, refused any payment. The trial began on 11 September 2008 at the Qu County People’s Court with the exchange of evidence.