"World Factory" Highlights Labour Issues

The workers wrote their rebellion in red pen.

"It's the Chinese people who don't sign - I'm for everyone, everyone for me!" a strike Honda (Honda) employee wrote in a form on which a company asked them to give up further labor action.

In Southern China, the anxiety of suicide is being replaced by the solidarity of workers - the strike that forced the Japanese carmaker to stop operations in China has entered the second week.

What worries the Chinese government most is that the labor flow in Honda and other large enterprises in Guangdong provoked doubts from all walks of life about the nature of the factory in twenty-first Century.

A new generation of Chinese workers who are dissatisfied with their actions show that they are determined to fight back.

Cantonese tea Jinhua says: "we are different from our parents.

Their wish is simple - earn some money and go back to their hometown.

We want to stay in the city and enjoy life here.

But we need respect. "

A few days ago, Taiwan Foundry Enterprise

Terry Gou, founder of T, which is usually unfriendly to media, arrived at a factory in Shenzhen, a manufacturing center, to try to resolve the crisis. (errryGou)

Only a few hours after he left, Tenth Foxconn employees committed suicide.

Many of the company's customers, focusing on their own image, will investigate these tragedies.

Later, another strike in the Honda pmission factory in Foshan added some unexpected political elements to China's escalating labor crisis.

The Chinese Constitution abolished the right to strike in 1982, without any official union of all China (All).

Workers' strike organized by China Federation of Trade Unions will be dissatisfied with Beijing.

But Honda workers have done this, and the other three car factories that provide spare parts on strike factories have to stop working.

"Strikes and negotiations are continuing," a Honda employee told the financial times yesterday.

"We are doing these things ourselves.

The official union does not represent us and has never appeared in the negotiations.

We don't even know who the president of the trade union is.

We hope to elect our own trade union chairman, but we want to be rejected. "

If he and his colleagues can get what they want, wage increases and elect their union representatives, this victory will be better than that.

In the face of workers' suicide or strike,

They point out that their workshop is modern, clean and bright.

Leisure facilities are first-rate.

Just last week, Terry Gou proudly showed reporters the swimming pool of the size of the Olympic venues in the factory.

However, this does not seem to be the key to the problem.

What makes workers suffer is repetitive work monotonously.

In addition, continuous overtime and night shifts also made them exhausted.

Honda, a tired 18 year old trainee, said: "no matter in the farm or in the factory, you must work."

His working hours are from 10:20 in the evening to 7:20 in the morning.

Although he did not take an active part in the strike, he expressed support for the elderly workers' action.

He refused to sign the "letter of commitment" - Honda assured workers that they would never lead, organize, participate in idle work, stop work or strike.

The undertaking also requires employees not to participate in activities such as "violation of the employment rules" which will cause economic losses and negative social impacts to the company without prior approval of the company.

"If they get a raise, I will consider graduation and work here," added the intern.

At present, he earns 900 yuan (US $132) per month.

At least 1/3 of the employees in Honda pmission factory are interns.

This reflects the widespread use of students and temporary workers in China's manufacturing sector due to insufficient supply of labour.

This in turn has also strengthened the bargaining power of Southern China workers.

Ge Yihao, managing director of Dragonomics, Beijing, said: "in the past, China's abundant labor force meant that you could automate in the process of industrial production and turn cheap labor into machinery." (ArthurKroeber)

If the workers do not want to, they know that there are 10 people waiting to replace him.

No one is willing to do their work now. "

"The workers just don't want to do the same work day after day," the chief executive of a large textile enterprise with tens of thousands of employees in Guangdong said.

It makes people feel numb and must be very depressed. "