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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 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
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
This chapter explains the salary and performance of medical staff, especially the issue of reduced income and uneven distribution of subsidies during Covid 19. It also points out the issue of nurses’ wages falling and hospitals being more willing to invest resources in doctors.
23 October 2024
Nurses in at least eight hospitals across China have gone out on strike in the last six months over low pay and benefits and demands for equal pay for equal work. Photo: Huaibei Today
03 February 2016
Note: 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 five.
18 November 2024
Around 60 healthcare workers have been protesting on the steps of the Guangzhou Chinese Medicine University Hospital for 47 days now demanding social insurance contributions that are about a dozen years in arrears. Photograph of protesting hospital workers taken from Weibo.
04 July 2013
Workplace safety is a major issue in China’s hospitals but the vast majority of collective protests by medical staff are triggered by wage arrears, the failure of employers to pay social insurance contributions and bonuses, or arbitrary changes in employment status.
30 December 2019
At least five of the hospital security guards sentenced by a Guangzhou court today to prison terms of up to nine months vowed to appeal their sentences. Several others are still considering their options.
15 April 2014