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China’s labour dispute court cases increase by over ten percent in 2009

China’s Supreme Court announced 11 March that the number of labour disputes handled by the country’s courts increased by a further 10.8 percent last year, after nearly doubling in 2008. In total, there were 317,000 labour dispute cases in 2009, compared with just 126,000 such cases in 2006. Photo by 2dogs

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Will the New Year see a resumption of collective bargaining in China?

As the Chinese economy recovers, an influential magazine calls on the government and trade unions to take concerted measures to alleviate the growing conflict between workers and management. Photo. Onekel

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County government squeezes out community teachers

Two community teachers from Jianchang county in Liaoning, both fired by the local government in 2007, talk about their attempts to seek redress and the corrupt and underhand activities of local officials.

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Going it alone: a report on the state of the workers' movement in China

CLB looks at how the workers’ movement in China has developed over the last two years, how the government has responded to it, and why the official trade union has been unable to play a positive role in it. Photo by Saad Akhtar

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