Our 10 most recent articles.
Truck drivers stranded across China are unable to earn an income, lack food and bare necessities
Pandemic-related restrictions on movement and economic conditions have uniquely affected China’s truck drivers
16 May 2022
Different contexts, similar solutions: solidarity with workers everywhere
On International Workers’ Day, CLB published a new report on the story of one union in Bangalore, India, practising collective bargaining through the global pandemic. Told through the eyes of worker representatives and union organisers at the Karnataka Garment Workers Union (KOOGU), the union’s roadmap of how to organise workers at the factory level for sustainable change is a roadmap for workers anywhere and everywhere to start reclaiming their bargaining power.
11 May 2022
April 2022 labour news roundup: truck drivers trapped by pandemic prevention
In this edition: Shanghai under the Omicron wave; internet companies lay off workers; how companies are dodging labour laws; unpaid wages for China’s football teams
10 May 2022
An introduction to China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map
There are no official statistics on the number of strikes and worker protests in China. CLB’s Strike Map is currently the only publicly accessible database that contains detailed information on more than 14,000 workers’ collective actions in China dating back to 2011
04 May 2022
Shanghai’s frontline workers document their struggles online under lockdown
CLB’s Workers’ Calls-for-Help Map has logged numerous examples of frontline workers’ rights being violated all while they work to support the lockdown
03 May 2022
Cities in lockdown lack infrastructure to support essential workers
The pandemic and frontline workers, China’s Two Sessions, deadly gas accidents on the rise, and collective bargaining in India’s garment sector
06 April 2022
March 2022 labour news roundup: China’s workers in the Covid-19 wave
In this edition: Workers in the pandemic, tech layoffs, parcel delivery rate cuts, food delivery workers' rewards and punishments, age limits in construction industry, overtime culture, vocational student intern deaths, and a rise in teacher qualification applications
06 April 2022
Workers live in factories, food delivery drivers sleep outside, and medical staff die from overwork in Covid-19 wave
Frontline workers have borne the brunt of the latest wave of Covid-19 hitting Shanghai and Shenzhen especially hard
30 March 2022
Labour policy suggestions put forward at annual legislative meetings in Beijing
Discussions at these meetings act as a barometer on labour policies for the coming year
22 March 2022
New research report analyses a decade of labour rights data
In a new 120+ page report released today and available for free public download, CLB takes a case-based approach to examining the last ten years of workers’ rights issues and the policy reasons for rapidly increasing inequality. Xi Jinping underscored the urgency of tackling inequality in January 2021:
09 March 2022