In Chinese Factories, Lost Fingers and Low Pay
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Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor rights groups.
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SHANGHAI -- Hunched over clattering machinery, the 170 workers at a factory here churn out gleaming pistons for auto engines by the crateful, driven by surging demand from abroad. To hear managers at Shanghai Datong Automotive Industrial Co. tell it, their success overseas is due to efficiency and...
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By Howard W. French  When Zhang Feifei lost her job in this booming Chinese factory town, she was not terribly concerned. Jobs had always been plentiful in Shenzhen's red-hot economy.
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More than 100,000 Chinese died in workplace accidents last year, including on the roads and railways, but the figure was down one-tenth on 2006, a senior official said on Friday.
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A new study conducted by the Chinese Red Cross shows that some three-quarters of all Chinese city dwellers are in ill health and that life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers.
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Here's one China-themed stock that's not doing so well.
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The good news is that child labor in Asia is decreasing. The bad news? It's not declining fast enough.
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The country's labor force is stalling as urban workers, tired of paltry pay and rat-infested apartments, seek higher wages and better conditions in rural areas.
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Thousands of retired textile factory workers in an eastern Chinese industrial center blocked traffic in a weekend protest over the failure of their pensions to keep pace with rising prices, officials and labor advocates said Monday.
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Millions of Chinese workers face long delays as they travel back to their factories after the New Year holidays, officials say
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Workers losing their jobs at a County Londonderry computer company are to hear details of redundancy terms.
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China's millions of poor migrant workers face widespread, institutionalized discrimination and abuse of their human rights and the government is not doing enough to protect them, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Industrial and road accidents killed 101,480 people in China last year, a drop of about 10 percent compared to 2006, the state's safety watchdog said in a report seen Sunday.
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Tech workers are holding on to their jobs tighter than they have in more than 20 years.
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Paint with higher levels of lead often sells for a third of the cost of paint with low levels, so Chinese factory owners sometimes cut corners and use the cheaper leaded paint.
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The Chinese company where Apple iPods are made has decided to drop a defamation claim against two staffers at China Business News.  An investigation by Apple found no serious labor abuses, like child labor, at Hongfujin Precision Industry in Shenzhen, the BBC reports.
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Colliery accidents in China killed  5,286 miners in the first 11 months of the year, but the  government cast the figure in a positive light, saying it was  at an all-time low relative to production.