Food delivery workers
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China’s workers’ movement will continue despite crackdown on labour activists
China will mark May Day this year with around 50 labour activists in some form of detention. CLB reiterates its call for the release of all activists and an end to the crackdown.
30 April 2019
Food delivery workers in China strike over pay cuts and unfair work practices
There have been at least 15 strikes and protests by food delivery workers in China since 1 May as increased competition among delivery platforms has drastically reduced workers’ take-home pay.
05 June 2018
How food delivery riders in Shanghai got their own trade union
Shanghai has set up China’s first trade union for food delivery workers. An important initiative to counter precarious work in an increasingly informal service economy
25 January 2018
Fatal accident highlights intense pressures faced by China’s food-delivery workers
Food delivery drivers in China are poorly paid, have little or no job protection, and are under intense pressure to make deliveries in the shortest possible time. This inevitably leads to accidents.
06 December 2017
China’s food delivery workers take a stand
Drivers at each of China’s three major food delivery platforms - Waimai, Ele.me, and Meituan – staged strikes and protests last month as pay and working conditions declined further
03 October 2017
Food delivery drivers call for strike highlights stagnating conditions in new economy
Express delivery drivers have tried moving to food delivery for better conditions, but poor conditions remain and strikes continue
24 March 2017
Painted into a corner: Factory worker left with nowhere to go after contracting anaemia
Han Dongfang talks to a factory employee badly poisoned at work but with little hope of getting occupational disease compensation.
25 March 2014
The Children of Migrant Workers in China
Table of Contents
Part one: Those left behind
Part two: Under the same blue sky? Rural migrant children in urban China
Part three: The government's response
Left-behind children
08 May 2009
Those Left Behind
There are 110 million migrant workers in China aged between 16 and 40 years old. They left home in the hope of building a better life for themselves and their family, yet when they start a family of their own, they are faced with a stark choice; either take their children to the cities and subject them to institutionalized discrimination, or leave them behind in the countryside in the uncertain care of relatives.
30 September 2008
Installation worker files lawsuit to claim compensation for industrial injury (I)
[Broadcast on 19 August 2006]
31 October 2006