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China: Strikes and protest numbers jump 20%
https://www.ft.com/content/56afb47c-23fd...dab6a27883

Strikes and protests in China during the first half of 2016 rose almost 20 per cent compared to a year earlier as an early boom in construction-sector unrest gave way to sustained growth in collective action by workers in transportation.

In June, China saw 169 strikes nationwide, down about 5 per cent year on year, according to figures provided by China Labour Bulletin’s strike map. But it saw a total of 1,456 strikes and protests as of end-June, up 19 per cent from the first half of 2015, writes Hudson Lockett.

Collective action by any group outside of China’s state-sanctioned workers’ union is forbidden, but workers often band together to take collective action anyway, and authorities sometimes take a more permissive attitude if the employer is not from mainland China.

In late June, for instance, Walmart staff across China launched a series of wildcat strikes using the mobile messaging service WeChat.
While strikes by retail workers have indeed risen this year, the biggest boost in absolute terms has come from construction workers, who in January helped push total incidents to a record monthly high of 503.

While labour incidents have historically tended to peak ahead of the long new year holiday and then drop off, since 2015 they have failed to do so, instead remaining around the 200 mark for most of the year.
This year, that level has been sustained in part by growth in worker strikes in protests in the transportation sector, which in the first half of 2016 rose more than 92 per cent year on year to total 206. Manufacturing, long the chief driver of collective action in China, saw its share of total incidents for the period drop by around 6 per cent despite dipping only slightly in absolute terms.

The geographic spread of worker action also continued as the manufacturing nexus of Guangdong, a long-time hotbed for strikes and protests, was joined by the coastal provinces of Shandong and Jiangsu as well as the inland province of Henan in witnessing more than 100 incidents over the last six months.
Further inland, the relatively more-developed province of Sichuan wasn’t far behind. Together with 26 other administrative regions they brought the national average per region to 46.6 in H1 2016, a marked increase from the average of 39.5 a year prior.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-...SKCN11J0C0

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