Kazakhstan: Labor unrest troubles another Chinese project
요약
보고된 날짜: 2022년 4월 15일
위치: 카자흐스탄
기업 페이지
China Xinxing Construction & Development Co - Employer , China Exim - Sponsor프로젝트
Zhambyl (Merke-Burylbaital road) - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 100
Workers: ( 100 - 카자흐스탄 , 도로 건설 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취 , 작업 및 작업 환경결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
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출처: News outlet
15 April 2022
…[A]lmost 100 workers building a road between two settlements in Kazakhstan’s southern Zhambyl region downed their tools.
They were dissatisfied with salaries paid out by the Chinese subcontractor: between $130 and $260 per month for 10-hour workdays, they said.
They also accused the company, a subsidiary of China Xinxing Construction & Development Co., of failing to provide them with appropriate work clothes.
The company has so far refused to meet their demands.
In an April 12 interview with the Atameken business channel, the Chinese chief engineer for the project said that the company could not raise wages as the costs of materials had soared in recent years, turning the project into a loss-maker. He added that he expected the problem related to clothing to be solved in the coming days.
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Worker unrest has been rippling across Kazakhstan in recent months, the latest cause for Chinese investors to reconsider ventures in the country.
The coronavirus choked cross-border trade and slowed or scuppered several pre-agreed projects. January brought the biggest and bloodiest bout of political instability in Kazakhstan’s modern history. Popular opposition to Chinese investments has fomented several political protests since 2016, and bubbled under the surface of many others.
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