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Article

15 Dec 2011

Author:
Dexter Roberts, Bloomberg [USA]

Using Propaganda to Stop China's Strikes: Government and industry search for ways to calm the country's factory hands

…7,000 workers at a...New Balance supplier in Dongguan protested plans to relocate production to Jiangxi province and cut bonuses…1,000 workers halted production to protest overtime rules at a Shenzhen company that…supplies Hewlett-Packard…[W]orkers at Singapore-owned Hi-P International, a supplier for Motorola Mobility and others, struck on Nov. 30...(Motorola confirms the incident, and says it is not directly involved in working toward a resolution.)…[International Council of Toy Industries CARE Foundation] launched a pilot program to teach labor law to workers and middle-level managers at factories...[A] professor…at Renmin University of China…says that helping workers negotiate more effectively is a sensitive issue for the government, which fears such attempts could empower workers too much…The government is expanding the Party-controlled official union…Wal-Mart, Dell, and Motorola [Mobility] have already let the union in. Policymakers want 80 percent of all companies to have collective bargaining agreements by 2013…The latest Five-Year Plan aims to increase the average minimum wage by at least 13 percent a year…[also refers to Walt Disney, Mattel, Lego, Royal Philips Electronics, Infact Global Partners, Milo’s Knitwear (International)]