Workers' struggles in East Asia (June 2012)

This month there has been news from Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

As usual there are some articles from sources in Indonesian, and this month a lot more from sources in Mandarin, so the larger number of reports for China does not necessarily mean more has been happening there, I've just started checking more sources. For pages that are not in English, you may want to use a translation service or browser plug-in such as Google Translate to get an idea of what the article is about.

I hope to start translating some of these articles properly when I get the chance, so any help with that or the finding of other reports would be appreciated - send me a private message.

The most important stories:

-WSWS Asia 2: Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia (link 1)
-WSWS Asia 9: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
-WSWS Asia 16: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
-WSWS Asia 23: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
-WSWS Asia 30: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
Burma/Myanmar 7: Strikes at garment factories in Rangoon / Yangon (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
Burma/Myanmar 8: Strike over pay and conditions at Aung Sein textile factory in Mandalay (link 1)
Burma/Myanmar 14: Protests against change in conditions by gold mine workers in Mandalay (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
Cambodia 1: Strike over bonus at Gawon Apparel garment factocry in Kandal (link 1)
Cambodia 8: Strike over conditions at Horus Industrial Corp garment factory Phnom Penh (link 1)
Cambodia 13: Strike over conditions at garment factory in Kampong Speu (link 1)
Cambodia 26: Strike over wages at Gap supplier Yung Wah Industrial and Zongtex Garment Manufacture in Kandal (link 1)
China 1: Strike by taxi drivers over fuel prices in Haiyan, Zhejiang Province (link 1)
China 8: Protest over condition at Foxconn electionics factory in Chengdu, Sichuan (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12) (link 13) (link 14) (link 15) (link 16) (link 17) (link 18) (link 19) (link 20)
China 12: Strike against illegal taxis by taxi drivers in Wenzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6)
China 12: Protest over mainland worker activist's death in custody in Hong Kong (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8)
China 12: Strike over factory relocation at Xingtai footwear factory in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2)
China 18: Strike over wages at hospital in Zhuhai, Guangdong (link 1)
China 19: Strike over pay, conditions and plant relocation at Chaoyang Electronics factory in Shenzhen (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
China 19: Strikes and protests over pay at Citizen watch factory and an electronics factory in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6)
China 19: Protest against forced retirement and redundancies at state textile factory in Qingdao (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
China 20: Protest over death of African immigrant in police custody in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8)
China 21: Protest against coal mine in Bijie, Guizhou (link 1) (link 2)
China 21: Strike over parking fines by bus drivers in Renhuai, Guiyang (link 1)
China 23: Strike over corruption and withheld wages at Rio Tinto explosives factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province (link 1) (link 2) (link 3)
China 26: Protest over police brutality in Zhongshan and over land seizure in Shantou, both in Guangdong (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12) (link 13) (link 14) (link 15) (link 16) (link 17) (link 18) (link 19) (link 20) (link 21) (link 22) (link 23) (link 24) (link 25) (link 26) (link 27) (link 28) (link 29)
Indonesia 12: Strike over wages at Taji Mas tobacco factory in Kediri, East Java (link 1)
Indonesia 14: Strike against outsourcing at PT Varta in Batam, Riau (link 1)
Indonesia 19: Strike and protest against outsourcing at Pertamina in Indramayu, Java (link 1)
Indonesia 25: Protest against outsourcing at state oil and gas company Pertamina in Balongan, Indramayu (link 1)
Indonesia 27: Strike over outsourcing and conditions at logistics company in Jakarta (link 1)
Indonesia 29: Strike over wages, conditions and pensions at postal service (link 1)
Japan 29: Protest against restarting of nuclear power plant in Tokyo (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5)
Philippines 2: Strike over wages at hardware supplier Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc in Parañaque City (link 1)
Philippines 15: Strike against changes in wage at Coca-Cola bottling plant in Bacolod City (link 1)
Philippines 23: Strike over forced redundancies of janitors at Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila continues (link 1)
South Korea 19: Strike by taxi drivers over fuel prices (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7)
South Korea 25: Strike over contracts, conditions and fuel prices by truck drivers (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12)
South Korea 28: Strike and protest by construction workers over unpaid wages and insurance (link 1)
Taiwan 25: Protest over unpaid wages and pensions by Hualon Textile Corp workers in Taipei (link 1)
Vietnam 15: Protest against land seizure near Hanoi (link 1) (link 2)
Vietnam 19: Protest against land seizure in Hanoi (link 1) (link 2)

All reports ordered by country and date:

-WSWS Asia

2: Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia (link 1)
9: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
16: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
23: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)
30: Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific (link 1)

Burma/Myanmar

4: Protest against taxes by shopkeepers in Rakhine state (link 1)
7: Strikes at garment factories in Rangoon / Yangon (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
8: Strike over pay and conditions at Aung Sein textile factory in Mandalay (link 1)
14: Protests against change in conditions by gold mine workers in Mandalay (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)

Cambodia

1: Strike over bonus at Gawon Apparel garment factocry in Kandal (link 1)
5: Protest against land seizure by sugar company in Kampong Speu (link 1)
8: Strike over conditions at Horus Industrial Corp garment factory Phnom Penh (link 1)
11: Hunger strike against detention of land seizure protesters at Boeung Kak Lake (link 1) (link 2)
13: Strike over conditions at garment factory in Kampong Speu (link 1)
26: Strike over wages at Gap supplier Yung Wah Industrial and Zongtex Garment Manufacture in Kandal (link 1)
27: Protest to welcome freed land seizure prisoners in Phnom Penh (link 1) (link 2)
29: Protest against planned Laos dam in Kampong Cham (link 1) (link 2)

China

1: Strike by taxi drivers over fuel prices in Haiyan, Zhejiang Province (link 1)
4: Protest to commemorate 1989 crackdown in Hong Kong (link 1) (link 2) (link 3)
8: Protest by migrant construction workers over not being paid in Zhengzhou, Henan Province (link 1)
8: Protest over condition at Foxconn electionics factory in Chengdu, Sichuan (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12) (link 13) (link 14) (link 15) (link 16) (link 17) (link 18) (link 19) (link 20)
10: Protest against police brutality in Bazhong, Sichuan (link 1) (link 2)
12: Strike against illegal taxis by taxi drivers in Wenzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6)
12: Protest over mainland worker activist's death in custody in Hong Kong (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8)
12: Strike over factory relocation at Xingtai footwear factory in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2)
13: Protest against police brutality in Xuchang, Henan province (link 1) (link 2)
13: Protests against district merger in Chongqing (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7)
13: Protest against corruption by laid off workers in Xi'an (link 1)
14: Protest against incinerator in Shanghai (link 1) (link 2)
14: Protest by migrant workers over unpaid wages in Lanzhou (link 1)
14: Protest against corruption in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province (link 1)
15: Protest against traffic police decision over drunk driving in Zhejiang Province (link 1) (link 2)
17: Protest over power cuts by students in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province (link 1)
17: Protest against police brutality in Suihua, Heilongjiang Province (link 1)
18: Protest against construction of drainage pipe next of gas pipeline in Guangxi Province (link 1)
18: Strike over wages at hospital in Zhuhai, Guangdong (link 1)
19: Strike over pay, conditions and plant relocation at Chaoyang Electronics factory in Shenzhen (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
19: Strikes and protests over pay at Citizen watch factory and an electronics factory in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6)
19: Protest against forced retirement and redundancies at state textile factory in Qingdao (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4)
20: Protest against public management official's brutality in Guangzhou (link 1)
20: Protest over death of African immigrant in police custody in Guangzhou (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8)
21: Protest against land seizure in Inner Mongolia (link 1)
21: Protest against coal mine in Bijie, Guizhou (link 1) (link 2)
21: Strike over parking fines by bus drivers in Renhuai, Guiyang (link 1)
22: Protest against construction of light rail in Zhaoqing, Guangdong (link 1)
22: Protest against police brutality in Chengdu, Sichuan (link 1)
23: Strike over corruption and withheld wages at Rio Tinto explosives factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province (link 1) (link 2) (link 3)
24: Protest against pollution in Shandong in April (link 1)
25: Protest against layoff at ceramics factory in Shanghai (link 1)
26: Protest over police brutality in Zhongshan and over land seizure in Shantou, both in Guangdong (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12) (link 13) (link 14) (link 15) (link 16) (link 17) (link 18) (link 19) (link 20) (link 21) (link 22) (link 23) (link 24) (link 25) (link 26) (link 27) (link 28) (link 29)
30: Protest against corruption in Heshan, Guangdong (link 1)

Indonesia

12: Strike over wages at Taji Mas tobacco factory in Kediri, East Java (link 1)
14: Strike against outsourcing at PT Varta in Batam, Riau (link 1)
15: Riot over police shooting of activist in Jayapura, West Papua (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12) (link 13) (link 14)
19: Strike and protest against outsourcing at Pertamina in Indramayu, Java (link 1)
25: Protest against outsourcing at state oil and gas company Pertamina in Balongan, Indramayu (link 1)
27: Strike over outsourcing and conditions at logistics company in Jakarta (link 1)
29: Strike over wages, conditions and pensions at postal service (link 1)

Japan

1: Protest over restart of nuclear reactors (link 1)
16: Protests against nuclear restart and disposal of radioactive debris (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7)
24: Protest against nuclear power in Tokyo (link 1)
29: Protest against restarting of nuclear power plant in Tokyo (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5)

Laos

29: Protest against land seizure in Sekong province (link 1) (link 2)

Malaysia

5: Protest against damage to environment in Penang (link 1) (link 2)
24: Protest against Lynas rare earth plant in Kuantan (link 1) (link 2)

Philippines

1: Protest against repression of union at electricity supplier in Cebu (link 1)
2: Strike over wages at hardware supplier Co Ban Kiat Hardware Inc in Parañaque City (link 1)
4: Strike by radio station workers over negotiations (link 1)
11: Protest over lack of land reform in Panay (link 1)
12: Protest against government policy and US influence in Manila (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5)
14: Hunger strike over lack of land reform ... (link 1)
15: Strike against changes in wage at Coca-Cola bottling plant in Bacolod City (link 1)
18: Protest against demolitions of illegal settlements in Manila (link 1)
23: Strike over forced redundancies of janitors at Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila continues (link 1)
29: Protest over end of rice import restrictions in Manila (link 1)

South Korea

8: Strike over bias at KBS broadcaster ends (link 1)
19: Strike by taxi drivers over fuel prices (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7)
25: Strike over contracts, conditions and fuel prices by truck drivers (link 1) (link 2) (link 3) (link 4) (link 5) (link 6) (link 7) (link 8) (link 9) (link 10) (link 11) (link 12)
28: Strike and protest by construction workers over unpaid wages and insurance (link 1)

Taiwan

13: Protest against water protection changes in Taipei (link 1)
25: Protest over unpaid wages and pensions by Hualon Textile Corp workers in Taipei (link 1)

Vietnam

15: Protest against land seizure near Hanoi (link 1) (link 2)
19: Protest against land seizure in Hanoi (link 1) (link 2)