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£4,000 for a Life? The Human Toll of Cheap Deliveries in China 2025-08-11 [HKLRM]

Xinjiang Forced Labour Spreads Worldwide as China Unveils “Washes Cotton” Through Chicken Feed 2025-07-26 [HKLRM]

Workers movement under fire 2025-07-08 [Green Left Weekly]

How big brands and foreign money prop up Chinese forced labour 2025-06-22 [BIJ]

Pingshan Factory Fire: How Unpaid Wages Spark Tragedy and Unions Stay Silent 2025-06-03 [China Labour Bulletin]

Leveraging the German Supply Chain Act: CLB’s Experience and Recommendations Amid Policy Change 2025-05-15 [China Labour Bulletin]

Silent Struggles: Tariff Crisis Hits China's Garment Workers 2025-05-09 [China Labour Bulletin]

Shein: Ultra-Fast Fashion and Forced Labour 2025-04-21 [Know the Chain]

BYD Workers Lead Mass Strikes to Challenge Wage Cuts and Broken Promises 2025-04-17 [China Labour Bulletin]

China Tells Kids to Study Manufacturing to Fill Factory Jobs 2025-04-03 [Bloomberg]

China’s delivery platforms compete to offer better worker benefits 2025-03-11 [Financial Times]

Faces of China: A young worker at world's largest UHV converter station 2025-03-18 [GLOBALink]

‘This generation doesn't want to be making the world’s shirts’: Why China’s jobless youth woes could persist 2025-03-17 [CNA]

CLB Files Complaint to BAFA Regarding Alleged Retaliation by Volkswagen AG’s Supplier in China Against Worker Representatives 2025-03-07 [China Labour Bulletin]

Labour Dispute at a Shoe Factory in Sichuan Highlights Failures in Union Oversight and Supply Chain Accountability 2025-02-27 [CLB]

WFTU high level visit to China and meetings with the all-China Federation of Trade Unions 2025-02-27 [WFTU]

CLB Files Complaints with China's Local Labour Inspectorate Bureaus and Germany’s BAFA Regarding Alleged Labour Law Violations by Tesla China and its Suppliers 2025-02-21 [China Labour Bulletin]

New Approach to Global Labour Rights Accountability applying to Chinese Textile and Shoe Factories: Lessons learned from CLB’s Global Supply Due Diligence Advocacy Work 2025-02-18 [China Labour Bulletin]

China Labour Bulletin Strike Map data analysis: 2024 year in review for workers’ rights 2025-01-31 [China Labour Bulletin]

Media workers jailed in China continues to rise 2025-01-27 [IFJ]

The truth behind your $12 dress: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling Shein's success 2025-01-14 [BBC]

Healthcare Workers' Report - Chapter 7 Interests of Healthcare Workers can only be Represented by the Union 2025-01-12 [CLB]

One Death is Too Many: Who is Responsible? 2025-01-12 [CLB]

One Death is too many Who is responsible for the vanish of the Qisda Union 2025-01-08 [China Labour Bulletin]

Chinese workers saved from 'slave-like conditions' in Brazil 2024-12-26 [Buenos Aires Times]

Once China’s ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Labor Activist Refuses to Back Down 2024-12-25 [NY TIMES]

One Death is too many - Who is responsible for the vanish of the Qisda Union 2024-12-11 [CLB]

One Death is too many - Who is responsible for the vanish of the Qsida Union 2024-12-10 [China Labour Bulletin]

Journalist re-arrested on public order offences 2024-12-02 [IFJ]

Luxshare’s Controversial Expansion: Workers Protest Contract Transfers 2024-11-26 [China Labour Bulletin]

The UN Guiding Principles and Supply Chain Due Diligence Laws: A Path to Improving the Lives of Millions of Workers in China 2024-11-12 [China Labour Bulletin]

Labor Rights And Activism Evolving Amidst China's Challenges 2024-11-11 [The Pinnacle Gazette]

Han Dongfang, Once China’s ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Labour Activist Refuses to Back Down 2024-11-10 [New York Times]

Workers at Henan Foxconn reportedly fainted after being scheduled to work 20 consecutive days with only one day off 2024-11-06 [China Labour Bulletin]

BYD Worker Sexually Harassed and Illegally Fired: Management Hostile, Union Silent 2024-10-01 [China Labour Bulletin]

China Labour Bulletin Strike Map data analysis: first half of 2024 in review for workers' rights 2024-09-22 [China Labour Bulletin]

Report Release: Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023) 2024-09-09 [China Labour Bulletin]

A Tribute to Scott Greathead 2024-09-05 [China Labour Bulletin]

The ‘run’ movement: young professionals flee the repression and spluttering economy of ‘zero-Covid’ China 2024-09-03 [Equal Times]

Workers protest furloughs by Shenzhen Yingguan Industrial to avoid severance 2024-08-12 [CLB]

Workers protest furloughs by solar panel company Akcome with living allowance below minimum wage 2024-07-29 [China Labour Bulletin]

Subverting the Status Quo 2024-07-26 [Asian Labour Review]

Xinjiang journalists arrested, others sentenced  ActNOW!  2024-07-12 [IFJ]

Challenges and concerns surrounding China's retirement age reform 2024-07-12 [China Labour Bulletin]

Report release: Chain of Consequences–How Chinese workers pay for supply chain de-risking 2024-06-28 [China Labour Bulletin]

Dongguan factory Nordd Leather closes, workers owed social insurance and wages 2024-06-27 [China Labour Bulletin]

'We’re like gears grinding until they break’: Chinese tech companies push staff to the limit For more info 2024-06-24 [FT]

Automobile equipment company Shenzhen Qiao Feng Technology halts relocation after strike with suspected retaliatory dismissals 2024-06-14 [China Labour Bulletin]

The Return of Strikes in China 2024-06-11 [Asian Labour Review]

International Labour Organization (ILO) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) Forge New Agreement to Enhance Trade Union Capacities in Asia and the Pacific 2024-06-06 [ILO]

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