Bulletins

Regulations urge police to handle mass protests with care

CLB has translated in full a set of internal regulations issued by the Ministry of Public Security that provide detailed guidelines for local police in handling the increasing number of public protests, known as "collective incidents," by citizens across China.

A New Force for Social Justice in China

In this issue, CLB publishes one of the first English language overviews of the newly emerging field of public interest litigation (PIL) in China. The study examines the social, economic and legal background to PIL's development, shows its relevance to labour rights in China, introduces a range of illustrative cases, and discusses the current obstacles to PIL and its prospects for the future.
Public Interest Litigation in China:

The Shanxi Brickyard Scandal and Child Labour in China

In this issue, CLB director Han Dongfang examines the background to and the root causes of the Shanxi brickyard slave labour scandal, and we reproduce two short news items from the website that support the findings of our research report on child labour, a revised and updated English version of which will be published shortly.
From bloodstained mine-shafts to brickyard slavery, blind faith in Deng Xiaoping theory is the real culprit.
Child workers' wages withheld for up to a year
Legislator supports findings of CLB report on child labour

Chinese delegation walks out of Human Rights Dialogue

Chinese delegation walks out of human rights dialogue meeting with the European Union over the participation of China Labour Bulletin and Human Rights in China.

Han Dongfang's commentary on the 18th anniversary of June 4

In this issue:
CLB Director Han Dongfang's commentary on the 18th anniversary of June 4.
CLB's updated list of Labour Rights Activists Imprisoned in China.
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June 4, 1989 - The opening act of a tragedy
Han Dongfang

China Labour Bulletin E-Bulletin No. 33 (2006-08-11)

In this issue:1)China's Draft Labour Contract Law: Without Freedom of Association, will Chinese Workers Be any Better Off? 2)China's Labour Trap . . .

China Labour Bulletin E-Bulletin No. 32 (2006-06-04)

In this issue:
1) Focused only on building workers' rights
2) A Message to Beijing: Don't Push Chinese Workers Too Far
3) A List of Imprisoned Labour Rights Activists in China
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1) Focused only on building workers' rights
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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


	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.


	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


	Flight attendants win one million yuan in compensation after massive pay cut
	Twenty-one flight attendants were on 9 March awarded a total of one million yuan in compensation after their monthly pay was slashed from 10,000 yuan to just 800 yuan. A Beijing court found that Xinhua Airlines, a Beijing-based subsidiary of Hainan Airlines, had no legal grounds for cutting the cabin crew’s salaries in September 2008 and ordered it to make up the shortfall in wages


	Politburo official calls for hukou reform – rights of migrant workers high on NPC agenda
	Momentum towards reform of China’s household registration (hukou) system seems to be growing in the build-up to this year’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s annual parliament, which opens at the end of this week. Zhou Yongkang, China’s most senior official in charge of public and state security, wrote in the Communist Party’s theoretical journal Seeking Truth (求是) that there was now an “urgent” need to reform the country’s anachronistic policy of dividing citizens into urban and rural residents, and explore new ways of managing internal migration.