July 2002
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Vol. 14, No. 6 (C)
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PAYING
THE PRICE:
Worker
Unrest in Northeast China
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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
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