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Note: China Labour Bulletin recently published our healthcare workers' report: Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023).
19 December 2024
China Labour Bulletin recently published our healthcare workers' report: Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023). This is the Chapter 3 of the report. This chapter explains the difference between formal and informal workers, which caused the informal workers to strike and demand equal pay for equal work. It also talks about the problem of low salaries for medical students and graduate students.
14 October 2024
China Labour Bulletion recently published our healthcare workers' report: Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023). This is the Chapter 2 of the report. This chapter explains that the rise of private capital, coupled with the blind expansion of second-tier public hospitals; coupled with the sharp drop in income in non-first-tier cities during the epidemic, created a financial crisis for hospitals. As a result, medical staff continued to be owed wages and social security.
04 October 2024
China Labour Bulletin recently published our healthcare workers' report: Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023). This is the introduction of the report.
23 September 2024
China Labour Bulletin released an extensive report documenting the last ten years of healthcare workers’ rights violations---Unprotected yet Unyielding: The Decade-Long Protest of China’s Healthcare Workers (2013-2023).
09 September 2024
Job creation and higher living standards have long been key objectives for the Chinese government. However, millions of workers in traditional industries have been laid off and many of the new jobs being created in the service sector are insecure, poorly paid, and leave workers without social security and employment contracts.
15 May 2023
Gome’s enterprise union was recognised as a model union just prior to the company owing wages, district union did not intervene in negotiations
04 April 2023
Details about the events leading up to the incident are unclear, but online comments reveal depth of labour grievances felt by ordinary workers
28 February 2023
Wage arrears accounted for 93 percent of incidents collected in CLB’s Strike Map in January 2023
17 February 2023
Migrant worker wage arrears; “PCR test economy” and manufacturing sector; university graduates' employment expectations
13 February 2023