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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]

Due diligence investigation needed after auto parts supplier avoided paying the promised wages and contract gratuity to hundreds of hourly workers 2024-05-30 [China Labour Bulletin]

Volkswagen: Address Uyghur Forced Labor - Supply Chain, Xinjiang Plant Risk Links to Labor Abuses 2024-05-27 [Human Rights Watch]

Garment workers’ unions must engage global brands on impacts of changing business strategies on workers’ rights 2024-05-16 [China Labour Bulletin]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

4-06-1989 The Chinese Army massacres thousands of student and workers demonstrating in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. [more]

6-06-2012 Li Wangyang, an organizer of independent unions, given 21 years in prison for his participation in Tiananmen, who became blind and paralyzed while in prison, is found "after committing suicide" in his hospital room, provoking monster protests in Hong Kong. [more]