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July 2002 Vol. 14, No. 6 (C)

PAYING THE PRICE:

Worker Unrest in Northeast China

I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Executive Summary
Recommendations

To the Chinese government:
To the International Labor Organization:
To the international community:
To corporations doing business in China:
To the international trade union community:

II. BACKGROUND
Breaking the "Iron Rice Bowl"
Laid-off, unemployed, retired
Corruption
The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) in the New Economy
Independent Union Organizing and China's International Obligations

III. Chinese Workers and Economic Rights

IV. PROTEST IN THE NORTHEAST
Liaoyang, Liaoning Province

The Liaoyang Ferroalloy Factory: Background to the March 2002 protests
March-May, 2002

Legal issues
Daqing, Heilongjiang Province

Background to the March-April protests
March and April, 2002

Fushun, Liaoning Province

V. ANALYSIS

APPENDIX 1: Open Letter to the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin

APPENDIX 2: Liaoyang Ribao, March 21, 2001

APPENDIX 3: Twice-detained and Twice-released - A laid-off oil worker from Daqing tells his tale

APPENDIX 4: China's statement made upon ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and what effects that statement has on China's obligations under the Covenant