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Recently CLB participated in the United Nations Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum (UNRBHR Forum). The forum centered on the issue of ensuring remedies for business-related human rights abuses in global supply chains, which is acknowledged in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
12 November 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
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
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
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26 July 2024