On February 9, 2021, He Hanliang, a cement worker in Chenxi County, Hunan Province, who was unsuccessful in demanding 10,000 yuan for his work, brutally killed the three young sons of the foreman’s Family and caused serious injuries to the foreman’s wife. (Photo source: video screenshot)
The Chinese Communist Party‘s viral Epidemic has led to a deterioration of the mainland economy, and workers’ wage claims are frequent before the New Year. Officials have resorted to harsh laws to prevent or even arrest people to suppress them, while workers facing desperate situations have protested to death or retaliated with more drastic measures.
Radio Free Asia reports that a painter at the Longnu Temple in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, committed suicide by taking poison because he was owed wages by the temple. Before committing suicide, he recorded a video complaining about the inaction of officials, saying that he had approached the local labor bureau and several government departments for help, but no one was willing to assist him, so he chose to die to escape his plight. Local media sources said that after the case, the authorities quickly blocked the news and covered up the relevant information. The Life and death of the painter is still unknown.
In addition, He Hanliang, a worker in Chenxi County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, took revenge on the foreman’s family for his unsuccessful attempt to collect 10,000 yuan in wages, which officials reported had resulted in two deaths and two injuries, including the foreman’s young child. The murderer has been arrested.
Mr. Li, who is concerned about labor rights, pointed out that in the mainland, the Labor Law has been arbitrarily distorted, and the inaction of functional departments, even collusion between government and business, is the root cause of the tragedy of wage collection.
Mr. Li said that recently, he received several calls in one day to collect wages. By definition, according to the administrative regulations previously enacted, each project it has a deposit for workers’ wages. However, as far as he knows, the so-called security deposit, are false, that is, at first you may need to play a certain amount of money to the account, and then through a certain relationship this money and take out with. This is the problem of collusion between government and business.
Media person Chen Hongtao also pointed out that the official recently blacklisted the rights workers as troublemakers, and the continuous occurrence of tragedies means that the laborers at the bottom have reached an unbearable point. If such a situation is not improved, the consequences will be even more serious.
Chen Hongtao said: in Shenzhen, there has long been this kind of operation, the labor inspection department they have an internal control of the kind of similar blacklist, you the worker, let’s say within a year, repeatedly appear to apply for labor arbitration ah or something, it put you on a blacklist, on your restrictions, and even from the law, on your sanctions. On one side, the workers and farmers at the bottom, through their labor to the so-called economic growth, ah, to provide security. But the workers are not even guaranteed the income from their labor. If they continue to dump the laborers, then this kind of human tragedy, only more and more.
Recently, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, through the official WeChat public number released the “abnormal list of workers’ rights”, informed the first on the list of Sichuan labor rights defenders Hu.
Zhejiang Jiaxing Tongxiang City Court on February 7 informed that, within a year, workers in the same labor security supervision department in the name of arrears of migrant workers’ wages for three times and more, or in different labor security supervision departments for five times and more, will be included in the “abnormal list of workers’ rights. Other conditions for entry into this list include filing a certain number of complaints, arbitration applications and lawsuits in the same labor security inspection department, labor arbitration court or court within three years.
Li Qiang, director of the U.S.-based human rights organization China Labor Watch, said the “abnormal list of labor rights” is a government crackdown on labor rights defenders to protect local taxpaying enterprises: “At its core, this policy At its core, this policy is designed to protect the interests of enterprises, because the government wants to keep enterprises in the local area, while workers who file complaints and defend their rights move from one place to another. These enterprises can bring a lot of tax revenue to the local area, and the operation of the enterprises affects the interests of the local government, and in a way, the local government is not defending the rights of workers.”
Li Qiang believes that the governance approach will further lead to an imbalance in local labor-management relations, making it more difficult for workers with damaged interests to defend their rights in the future. He said the government should do a good job of labor protection, supervision and arbitration independently, instead of abusing its power to suppress rights defenders.
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