Make China keep its promise!

Make China keep its promise! "By allowing Beijing to host the Games you will help the development of human rights" - Liu Jingmin, Vice President of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee, April 2001

China has failed to live up to its Olympic promise. Basic workers' rights continue to be violated and labour activists continue to be imprisoned. A significant number of labour activists remain in prison for their peaceful actions to defend labour rights. Some of these have been in prison since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. In fact, ever since China's Olympic promise to improve human rights, more labour activists have been detained. Some have sentences extending well past ever the next Olympics in 2012.

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Global Labour Strategies

ETUC welcomes new Chinese Labour Contract Law

03/07/2007

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has welcomed the New Labour Contract Law adopted by the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress last week.

ETUC General Secretary John Monks said “The law is a significant step forwards in protecting the rights of individual workers. It now needs to be scrupulously enforced in all areas of activity in China. I am glad to see – as is also now recognised by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China – that the new law draws from labour provisions in the EU and is not considered to be a break on competitiveness. This demonstrates that the European Social Model is appreciated worldwide and gives the lie to those who would have European workers give up their hard-won rights in the name of global competition”.

ETUC

IMF work on China

This is a link to the International Metalworkers Federation's website about China. There you also find mentioned the EMF China study.

Response to consultation of the European Commission

Public consultation of the Commission on a strategy for the trade and economic relations between the EU and China.