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CHINA LABOR

China has changed from a low-cost labor manufacturing haven to one where attracting and retaining workers is often a company’s biggest, most demanding task. Higher wages, tight labor markets, and ever more assertive workers are now some of the biggest challenges facing multinationals and emerging Chinese companies alike. We explore the challenges.

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What Do China’s Workers Want? - Room for Debate Blogmore

Why are Chinese workers committing suicide and protesting at their factories?

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China's Small Factories Strugglemore

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Survey indicates 27% multinationals in China lay off employees to surv...more

Multinational firms in China have shrunk payroll and recruitment as they struggle to survive in the global financial...

China's labor unrest may help U.S. manufacturersmore

Honda Strikers in China Offered Smaller Raise Than Soughtmore

Workers at the Honda Lock factory were offered an increase of about $44 a month, less than half what they were seeking.

New Rules Issued for Layoffsmore

Feb. 12 - China’s State Council has announced new rules that will require companies to report to local labor...

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Chinese Sep coking coal import volumes hit eight-month high - read this Platts news article and other stories in coal...

China’s ‘sticky floor’ more

Economic success in China will hinge on fixing the gender inequality among its workers. China’s transformation to a...

The Economic Downturn Will Increase Social Instability in China? Exper...more

With little doubt in anyone’s mind that the impact of the global crisis impacting China, the focus has changed.

41 million jobs lost in Chinamore

China has lost up to 41 million jobs since the global capitalist crisis began last year, according to a report from a...

China Pressures Big Companies to Allow Unionsmore

to form in their Chinese plants and offices. But many companies fear admitting the unions will give their Chinese...

China's hard landingmore

(Fortune Magazine) -- In the early evening light, on a block that once bustled but is now deathly quiet, Li Zhong-he...

Radio Free Asia: Chinese Workers in Coca-Cola Disputemore

China  Labour  Bulletin  appears  in ... Employees and management face off at a Coca-Cola joint-venture bottling plant...

As China's economy continues to develop, so do career opportunities fo...more

that posts roughly a million jobs per day, says that beyond the localization of salaries and the maturing Chinese...

Why China's State-owned Companies Are Making a Comebackmore

The news about China's efforts to recover from the global financial crisis can cause whiplash. A government research...

Haier Says It's Quitting Manufacturing more

Haier, the electronic appliance giant and one of the foremost symbols of Made in China, says it is bowing out of...

Globalisation: In praise of the stateless multinationalmore

And what about overcoming all those awkward cultural differences? Lenovo, for example, has had to encourage normally...

Is China’s Cheap Labor Supply Really Unlimited?more

Do You Know How Many China Employees You Have? I'll Raise You One.more

...that were never employees. I went on to say that in most instances, China's labor...

In China, a Labor Movement Aided by Modern Technologymore

Workers on strike told their stories and tapped into a communications web allowing the working class in China to share...

Taiwan's top laptop maker raising China wages to deal with labor short...more

China Tells Businesses to Unionize more

Some of the world’s biggest corporations are facing intense pressure from China to allow the state-approved union to...

Is China an Innovative Society?more

I tapped into an interesting discussion on LinkedIn. Chris Gelken, who is host and co-producer of Today, a live news...

Time to change the act more

Business in China, like business everywhere else, is being walloped by the global crisis. The slowdown is also exposing...

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