Increasing Risk of Labour Strikes in China

Description:

China is doing a fast growth with opening the door, extending international trade and cooperation, and introducing a foreign fund and advanced technology. As China will grow like this speed, the Gap between the poor and rich is getting bigger. It already reached a dangerous level, and can trigger a social anxiety. Workers will go on a strike to improve their wage and well-being.

Enablers:

Extend organizations of unions. Learn advanced union cultures due to increasing investment by foreign companies.

Inhibitors:

Easily lay off workers, especially workers who can stir up a strike.

Huge workforce to be supplemented from rural communities.

Paradigms:

1) Adopted the policy of reform and opening to the outside world.
2) The country's per capita GDP has increased by five times.

Experts:

http://www.mof.gov.cn/index.htm
http://www.mof.gov.cn/english/english.htm

Timing:

The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

Web Resources:

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