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Titolo: [OT] Le prime crepe del colosso giallo

Mi era venuta la curiosità di sapere dove erano finiti gli scioperanti
cinesi... in galera. Però la cosa sembra prendere piede.
Vi immaginate se i dipendenti della De Longhi o della Zanussi
facessero un mese di sciopero?
In effetti tutte le aziende italiane che aprono stabilimenti
all'estero si affrettano ad offrire stipendi maggiori della media
nazionale per garantirsi da un eventualità del genere.
Di questo passo anche il costo del lavoro nel terzo mondo è destinato
a salire progressivamente.
Io penso che come è accaduto per i paesi dell'est più vicini, presto
anche la delocalizzazione in Cina non sarà più un affare per nessuno.
L'unico vantaggio che potrebbe permanere sarebbe la defiscalizzazione
e il sommerso.
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/en/web/article.php?article_id=50209
Labor unrest is growing in China 
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Labor unrest is growing in China 
By Allen T. Cheng Bloomberg News Wednesday, October 27, 2004 
BEIJING China Resources Enterprise and other companies in China face
growing labor unrest over jobs and the government's failure to provide
other support in the dismantling of its cradle-to-grave welfare
system.
About 6,800 workers at China Resources, a Hong Kong-listed retailer,
are on strike for a seventh week in northern China, alleging that the
company is forcing them to sign "unfair" labor contracts, according to
China Labour Bulletin, a research group in Hong Kong.
China Resources officials declined to answer questions about the
strike.
The strike is one of several in China. In Anhui province, about 10,000
textile workers and retirees recently protested decreases in pension
payments, the lack of medical insurance and compensation for injuries,
according to China Labour Bulletin. In northern China, about 1,000
workers at Shaanxi Precision Alloy protested a takeover, a U.S.
labor-rights group, China Labor Watch, said.
"Protests like these are happening all over," Robin Munro, research
director of China Labour Bulletin, said by telephone from Hong Kong.
"We expect many, many more as the wave of privatizations of
state-owned companies takes off."
China is selling more than 190,000 state companies to private
investors. The State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration
Commission announced last year that it was focusing on restructuring
just 190 or so large state-owned companies and selling the rest.
Employees of the Shanghai-listed Shaanxi Precision protested because
the alloy manufacturer is in financial trouble, and workers are
unhappy with the offer from the new owner, a company in the southern
city of Shenzhen, according to China Labor Watch's chairman, Li Qiang.
Officials at Shaanxi Precision were unavailable for comment.
In the same province of Shaanxi, 6,800 workers, the majority of them
women, have been on strike at the Tianwang Textile Factory in the city
of Xianyang after China Resources took over the factory.
The company wants workers at Tianwang Textile to accept severance pay
equal to a month's wage for each year of employment before signing a
new contract that hires them back at lower wages, Munro said.
"The new contracts don't respect seniority of workers," said Munro,
who said he spent time with the workers in Shaanxi recently. "Many are
angry."
Tianwang Textile was turned into an employee and management-owned
shareholding company a few years ago, Munro said. Workers paid 4,000
yuan, or $483, and Communist Party officials paid 8,000 yuan and
senior party officials paid 16,000 yuan for an unspecified stake in
the company, he said. "Now they are forced to sell their shares back
so China Resources can take over," Munro said.
About 1,000 police appeared at the factory gates with water cannons
four days into the strike on Sept. 18. They were met by thousands of
workers who surrounded them, forcing them to back down.
During the weekend, the workers tried to organize a sit-down
demonstration at the city's main railroad link and disbanded after a
deputy provincial governor turned up to calm the situation, Munro
said.
Officials are cracking down by arresting labor activists, according to
China Labor Watch, which cites the arrests of Ding Xiulan and Liu
Meifeng, leaders of a strike at the Zhongheng textile factory in the
eastern province of Jiangsu.

 anche la delocalizzazione in Cina non sarà più un affare per nessuno.
Ah perchè secondo te i salari nei paesi dell'est li hanno aumentati?
Dalle mie parti tutte le aziende calzaturiere grandi e piccole hanno 
chiuso per riaprire altrove (Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, ecc.) e lì gli 
stipendi (che già col costo della vita locale dovrebbero essere risibili 
rispetto ai nostri) sono da fame. 
Inviato da 
www.mynewsgate.net

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
Il 2002 e il 2003 sono stati degli anni di successo economico e la
crescita economica è stimata essere del 4,5% per anno. Il salario
medio per mese in Romania è stato di 7 021 231 lei in novembre 2003,
una crescite del 2,1% rispetto al mese precedente. Questo mostra che
l'aumento dei salari supera il tasso di inflazione, che è di circa
1,2% per mese. Il salario netto medio mensile nel novembre 2003 era di
5 037 861 lei, cioè circa 120 Euro.