• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksBanned from community
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    I guess to be more specific are worker led unions that facilate collective bargening or activities like strikes legal in the majority of China yet? Or are they limited to the role of special interest political action group still.

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      As long as it isn’t undermining the socialist system, strikes to happen and are supported by the CPC, even. Unions cannot legally be independent from the ACFTU.

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        Do you have some major examples where a legal strike was allowed to happen? From what i can tell illegal strikes happen are often not fully procecuted (Heaven is high and the emperor is far away after all) but legal strikes from the sanctioned ACFTU do not seem common, im guessing because of the top down structure of the org, but i could be mistaken there.

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          Strikes are generally uncommon across the board these days because the system works well and is constantly improving. A great article on the modern class struggle in China between the proletariat and national bourgeoisie is This is a Great Struggle, and it elaborates on the role of the CPC in the class struggle (for workers, against capitalists).

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              You linked a trotskyist “China watching” org, of course they are going to portray China as though it’s in crisis when it’s steadily doing better and better. This is why China’s approval rates are so high:

              Secondly, the link I provided talks about worker interests, in China the interests of the state are aligned with the interests of the workers, hence the worker backlash against Lenovo.

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                You’ve shared this picture twice, but i cant find the study related to it.

                Do you have better sources on tracking strikes in mainland China? The only other places i found info were US finance reporting on as a mattet of investment concern.

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                    You do see why the argument that strikes are rarely allowed but conveintly thats ok because they are needed or wanted isnt very convicing right?

                    I can seem to find numbers supporting that are a rise in strikes which line up with the global trend of economic unrest, I can not find numbers suggesting what you are saying though, and instead you seem to be suggesting that yes there is an increase of illegal strikes but no body actually or needs them because the states interests are the peoples interests. That seems inconcruent to the data showing that people are in fact striking. Which is why i was asking about different data sources. Id take non-english data sources as well to be honest. Translatinh the label and methods may take some effort but i can Arabic Numerals in almost any context.