News and articles about Daqing, Liaoying, Guangyuan labour struggle

Liaoyang Police Again Use Violence Against Workers Holding a Peaceful Petition(2002-05-15)
Liaoyang workers prepare for extended struggle (2002-05-10)
Limits of the ACFTU for Daqing Workers (2002-04-30)
Is Social Security the 'Solution' to the Labour Protests in North-Eastern China?(2002-04-24)
Daqing Oil Workers' Protests Spread to Lanzhou; Further Arrests in Daqing(2002-04-23)
Another Liaoyang Labour Leader Arrested (2002-04-16)
6,000 Liaoning Miners, Guizhou Pensioners Protest (2002-04-10)
Crackdown on Labour Organizing in Liaoyang and Guangyuan(2002-04-04)
Mass Paramilitary Deployment Quells Daqing Demonstrations (2002-03-26)
Free All Detained Workers-Activists in Liaoyang (2002-03-21)
Sichuan Textile Workers Struck Against Arrests(2002-03-20)
Three More Metal Workers Arrested in Liaoyang Protests (2002-03-20)
Liaoyang Workers' Leader Yao Fuxin Secretly Detained (2002-03-19)
30,000 Liaoning Workers Protest Arrest (2002-03-19)
Daqing Oil Workers' Action Rages On with Solidarity Demonstrations (2002-03-18)
The struggle of Daqing labour enter the 15th day (2002-03-16)
Arrests Threaten 10,000 Laid-off Protesters in Liaoyang (2002-03-16)
Daqing: Oil Companies' Profiles (2002-03-14)
50,000 Daqing Oilfield Workers Organise Independent Trade Union (2002-03-06)


	CLB Calls for the Immediate Release of Political Activist Wang Guilan
	CLB condemns the sentencing of Wang Guilan to re-education through labour on the spurious and arbitrary charge of “disturbing social order” during the Olympic Games, and calls for her immediate release. Photo of the Birds Nest by DonDomingo@flicker.com


	Laid-off mill workers given just 235 yuan a month to live on
	Around 3,000 workers at the Chongqing No. 1 Cotton Mill were forcibly laid off between 2000 and 2003 with a living allowance of just a 235 yuan a month. Despite soaring food prices in Chongqing, the local government has refused to raise the allowance.


	The Price of Coal in China
	CLB publishes a report on China's coal mining industry focusing on the industry’s appalling safety record, collusion between mine owners and local government officials, and the government’s system of post-disaster management, which is systematically eroding the rights of the bereaved. Photograph by Andi808


	Responding to Hepatitis B discrimination in the workplace
	More than 120 million Chinese, about ten per cent of the population, carry the Hepatitis B virus. They suffer from widespread and often insitutionalized discrimination. CLB is currently helping bring nearly 20 anti-discrimination law suits in the mainland. Photograph by Nako