المقال
Labour rights key to CSR in China
...a unique two-day CSR debate organised by the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a Shenzhen-based labour rights watch organisation [was held 26-27 Oct 2006]...ICO Director Dr Liu Kaiming gave the conference some...statistics China is less proud of - 86 million lost jobs in restructuring public enterprises...654 million without health care...12 million of Shenzhen's 13 million population are migrant workers, without full rights...Labour unrest is growing...There are initiatives underway - from guidelines on CSR from the Shanghai Stock Exchange to a scheme by Nike to improve basic education for workers in 30 of their supplier factories...[also refers to Foxconn (part of Hon Hai), Apple]