Relevant read as the same wrong views on China and unions from some Australian union leaders as well. A Time for Honest Self-Reflection The US Labor Movement and China by ALBERTO C. RUIZ The statistics are chilling. In a country where workers have no real right to organize a union, they face an ever falling [...]
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War or peace
War or Peace. My Report on the Basewatch meeting Saturday april 28 3.30 pm CDU Darwin With veteran whafie and NT political leader Brian Manning, I with 40 others attended Darwin’s public meeting on the US military machine in Australia. I applaud the Basewatch group for an informative meeting over 2 hours on this question [...]
Rethinking the China campaign
The Vancouver & District Labour Council session with Elaine Bernard from Harvard University on March 24th went very well with a good turnout and discussion. A number of people unable to attend wondered if there were handouts or if it was videotaped. The nature of the session was a conversation so it wasn’t recorded, but [...]
China: Foxconn and Apple report
Fair Labor Association releases Apple labor investigation report, details serious worker issues at Foxconn factories. http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2912210/fair-labor-association-apple-foxconn-investigation-labor-report On February 13, FLA launched an independent investigation into labor rights allegations at Foxconn, an Apple supplier in China. FLA assessors logged more than 3,000 staff hours inside the factories. They evaluated conditions based on visual observation and review [...]
MR on China
Monthly Review on China http://monthlyreview.org/2012/02/01/february-2012-volume-63-number-9
China better wages
Chinese Workers Demanding Better Wages, Conditions, Real Union Protections March 4, 2012 The first signs of real trade unions and factory strikes may signal the end of China’s low cost, low human rights advantage. Two weeks ago, Foxconn Technology, an electronic giant, announced it would increase its workers’ salaries by as much as 25%. The [...]
China and neo-liberalism
China and neo-liberalism http://media.lclark.edu/content/hart-landsberg/2012/03/02/china-and-neoliberalism/
Global Stagnation and China
Global Stagnation and China By John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney February 2012 — Monthly Review Five years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 began there is still no sign of a full recovery of the world economy. Consequently, concern has increasingly shifted from financial crisis and recession to slow growth or stagnation, [...]
Apple – conditions in China
This blog has followed the international concern about the conditions for workers in China assembling Apple products. Support this petition. Put China into my search http://sumofus.org/campaigns/ethical-iphone/?sub=fb
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