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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
Collective actions by healthcare workers in China in the past decade are closely related to the country’s two rounds of healthcare reforms. The first round of healthcare reform came after China’s Reform and Opening Up period, and it introduced the concepts of self-financing and drug markups to public hospitals. This means that medical services were increasingly linked to profitability, the income and expenditure structure of public hospitals were altered, and “inaccessible and expensive healthcare” (看病难、看病贵) emerged as a new social problem. The second round of reform in 2009 aimed to rectify problems from the past reform, but many issues remain.
26 September 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
In the first half of last year, China Labour Bulletin reported a rebound in strikes and protests in China. As of 2024, the number of workers’ protests remains high, exceeding the same period last year. The Strike Map recorded 719 collective actions in the first half of 2024, up from 696 incidents during the same period the previous year.
19 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
The 2022 official estimate of the population of rural migrant workers in China is 296 million, comprising more than one-third of the entire working population. They have been the engine of China’s spectacular economic growth over the last three decades but remain marginalized, and their children have limited access to education and healthcare.
06 September 2023
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