Chinese sanitation workers continue the fight for justice

http://www.aawl.org.au/content/chinese-sanitation-workers-continue-fight-justice As previously reported, many workers in China face precarious employment due to casualisation and contracting out. The death of a sanitation worker in Shenzen last month as he was sweeping, has galvanised fellow workers to fight for better working conditions and against outsourcing employment arrangements. This same week, a report by the International Trade Union Confederation ranked China as one of the ten worst countries for workers’ rights. Advice from AAWL  www.aawl.org.au Also see item at http://www.clb.org.hk/en/blogs/jiayi/family-demand-justice-sanitation-worker-who-died-streets-shenzhen  The sudden death of 54-year-old sanitation worker, Deng Deming, who collapsed while sweeping the streets of suburban Shenzhen in the early morning of 15 May, has galvanized his family and local labour activists to demand not only justice for Deng but for far more transparency in the local government’s secretive dealings with cleaning services companies. Deng was employed by Tianmingzhu Municipal Services, which had allegedly bought work-related injury insurance for its workers but had initially refused to help the grieving family apply for work-related injury compensation, the company claiming that Deng had died outside of work hours. His daughter Deng Liehong was outraged: