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

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

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

Hong Kong / China UN Special Rapporteur raises concerns about Jimmy Lai’s case at the UN Human Rights Council [IFJ] 13-03-2025

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

China 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 [China Labour Bulletin] 21-02-2025

China 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 [China Labour Bulletin] 18-02-2025

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

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

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


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

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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]

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]

China UN Special Rapporteur raises concerns about Jimmy Lai’s case at the UN Human Rights Council 2025-03-13 [IFJ]

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

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]

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

China Workers rescued from 'slavery-like' conditions at BYD factory site in Brazil 2024-12-26 [NHK]

China Chinese workers found in 'slavery-like' conditions at BYD car factory construction site in Brazil 2024-12-26 [Euronews]

Hong Kong 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]

China PSI: ‘We stand with the Hong Kong trade unionists’ 2024-12-03 [PSI]

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]

China Unionists and former journalists jailed in National Security Trial 2024-11-21 [IFJ]

China BWI on the sentencing of the “Hong Kong 45” 2024-11-21 [BWI]

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]

China ZCTU partners with Chinese trade union 2024-11-08 [ZNBC]

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China Trade unions flag Chinese firms 2024-11-02 [Southern Eye]

China Steelworkers union welcomes new tariffs that will protect jobs in Canada’s steel and aluminum sectors 2024-10-23 [USW Canada]

China COSATU General Secretary, Solly Phetoe’s address to the China-Africa Summit of trade unions Leaders organised by the ACFTU in Beijing 2024-10-19 [COSATU]

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China Journalists sentenced to prison in sedition case 2024-10-08 [IFJ]

China Protecting Canadian workers: CLC welcomes tariffs on Chinese imports 2024-10-01 [CLC]

China Unifor applauds government action on unfair Chinese EV, steel and aluminum imports 2024-10-01 [Unifor]

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

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China Migrant workers seek mainland police help over firings, docked wages in Hong Kong: union 2024-09-10 [South China Morning Post]

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

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This month in labour history


17-05-2010 1,900 workers at a Honda factory in Foshan, China, go on strike for equal pay with assembly plant workers. [more]

30-05-1925 British-led police in Shanghai massacred 12 workers and students supporting a strike at a Japanese-owned cotton mill. The working class responded with a massive strike until being broken the following year by Chinese nationalists. [more]