The working-class history of Guangzhou
Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in
World History Archives and does not
presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to
release their copyright.
- Guangzhou Becomes Paradise of Foreign
Job-seekers
- Xinhua, 25 November 2001. Incomplete statistics released
by the Guangzhou Municipal Labor Bureau showed, more than
10,000 foreign nationals from 60 countries and regions are
working in Guangzhou.
- Workers Take Wage Arrears Claim to
Arbitration—Deputy Chair of their Trade Union Defends the
Company Against Workers!
- Nanfang Gong Bao (Southern Workers'
Daily), 4 March 2002. In response to the application for
arbitration over unpaid compensation wages arrears and
dismissal, the company appointed the Deputy Trade Union
Chairperson at the enterprise level responsible for its
employees, as its representative. Consequently, the trade
union official cross-examined the workers—on the
company's behalf!
- Guangdong eliminates ‘temporary
worker’ contracts
- Asian Labour News, 24 July 2004. Labour
contracts will be standardised to eliminate the distinctions
between ‘temporary worker’ and ‘regular
worker’ contracts. In many enterprises, the contracts
are different and thus a means for employers to discriminate
against migrant workers.
- Guangzhou government seeks to protect the
legal rights of migrant workers
- Asian Labour News, 24 July 2004. The
Guangzhou government recently carried out a special
investigation into protecting the labour rights of migrant
workers. Some of the main recommendations.