Labour Rights

On November 10, 2005 workers whose health has been adversely affected by the chemical cadmium while working at Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd’s (hereafter GP) Xianjin and Chaoba factories handed over a letter to the GP Fund board managers. The contents of the letter were chiefly concerned with compensation and medical costs and included a number of clear and reasonable demands. These included: medical checks for the children of female workers who had come into contact with cadmium while employed at the said factories; past, current and future medical costs of the workers, the issue of future employment and the difficult financial circumstances that most of the affected workers now find themselves in.

It has come to our notice that your two factories in HuiZhou, China, has poisoned at least 300 of your workers who were found with much higher than normal level of cadmium last year, and at least six of them has already being officially diagnosis as cadmium poisoning. We are aware of the fact that cadmium is a toxic chemical that must be handled with care. However, you make your workers to process cadmium with little protection and no OSH training for years, which resulted in wide scale poisoning among hundreds of workers. In addition to this, it was also widely reported that there might be serious community pollution by your company. One environmental group found that there were higher than normal level of cadmium in the community.

Today, 30 December 2009, your Huizhou-based subsidiary Huizhou Power Pack Co. Ltd dismissed Wang Fengping for her alleged leading role in a street meeting on 9 December. Wang Fengping’s…

Since 2011, Globalization Monitor has conducted several investigations into one of the Adidas golf equipment suppliers, the Dynamic Casting Company Limited (Dynamic Casting), which is located in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone. Our investigations show that at least 69 polishing workers there are suffering from Hand-Arm Vibration condition (HAV thereafter). 

The story behind the Adidas golf equipment production – At least 69 Dynamic Casting (Guangzhou)’s workers are suffering from Hand-Arm Vibration condition Globalization Monitor…

Please vote for RED DUST in the iSunTV Chinese Documentary Awards 2012 Competition.  RED DUST chronicles the GP workers’ struggle for justice, and is one of the documentaries in the competition that covers labor issues in China. Please take a few minutes to vote for it and encourage others to vote too!

Give Apple workers a voice in their future By joining the Fair Labor Association, Apple has embarked on its latest program of auditing its suppliers, ostensibly to investigate and remedy the…

This is a survey on the impact of the 2008-9 economic crisis on  rural migrant workers in Guangdong. 70 percent of the interviewees reported that production became unstable, sometimes leading to dismissals.

26th September, 2011 To ThyssenKrupp Elevator (HK) Limited, Work 33 hours a Day? No More Toleration! Strike and Get What We Deserve! Fight for Reasonable Pay and Secure Public Safety…

Gold Peak Workers Campaign Update Ex-GP workers win new compensation deal after six years of struggle New developments in the campaign for just compensation: A. Lawsuit and public…