This article explores the relationship between two phenomena in China, the children of migrants who have moved with their parents from rural areas to cities to find work (liudong ertong) and ‘left-behind children’ whose parents have moved to cities for work but have left them in rural areas (liushou ertong).
A new joint report from Tsinghua University and the China Youth Development Foundation suggests that without supporting the demands of migrant workers, the current situation of frequent strikes will become more serious.
This story is about the case of over a thousand students attending the Hengshui boarding school because they cannot sit the gaokao in Beijing for lack of appropriate hukou.
The legal working group of the Guangdong's People Congress Standing Committee asked the National People's Congress if the"Guangdong Province Firm Collective Contract Regulations"could include workers' "right to stop work" and received a negative answer.
8,000 teachers in Zhaodong city, Heilongjiang province have been striking since November 17th after two rounds of negotiations with the authorities failed.
On November 12th, the Hangzhou municipality Xicheng district People's court decided that the Oriental Cooking School was guilty of gender-based discrimination because it had a "hiring men only" policy.
The authors analyze the controversy created by Guangzhou's new regulations on the management of social organizations and their impact on unregistered NGOs.
In this article, Han Hongmei uses the "I give the employers my set of rules" case study to analyze the emergence and multiplication of advocacy activities carried out by marginalized groups.
Apple are again in the midst of a storm about working conditions at Foxconn. Many young workers have contracted leukaemia even though Foxconn says that no workers have had direct contact with chemicals. Apple, Foxconn and Labour Action China, a labour NGO based in Hong Kong, are all investigating the case.
The article is a recount of the reporter's experience in the sanitation workers face-off against the police, and narrates some of the protest leaders' experiences of being subjected to harassment from law enforcement officers and their employer.
Labour rights activists have written a joint open letter calling for workers to be given the authority to supervise workplace safety measures themselves. This call comes following the Kunshan factory explosion incident, which resulted in 71 dead and 186 injured.