Survey of civil society organizations: only 5% construction migrant workers have labor contracts | | construction worker _ news

　　United States law journal Web site on December 11 article, topic: China's migrant workers in the construction industry wants to be late salaries, as well as real contracts, tens of thousands of migrant workers in the construction industry, China is building the country's new high-speed roads, stadiums, shopping centers and railway lines. But they get very little return, sometimes even get paid for that.

Two of China's civil society organizations to 4,329 construction worker surveys have shown, only 5% of the workers receive employer-provided labor contracts. Most workers looking for temporary work, is based on the construction site foreman verbal commitments, including when to pay and how much to pay. The survey recorded 7 years at least 138 cases of company fails to pay the wages of construction workers.

Zhang Kejian, when construction worker for 14 years. Every year to work had to pay late or do not send job fight, "happened to I hope that society will realize that we are going through," he told reporters, "help us get formal employment contracts, don't let us become a slave to the bosses. ”

According to one Labor Group, based in Hong Kong, said, Chinese construction workers involved in the strike and the frequency of operation is rapidly accelerating. "A marked decline of China's real estate market was the main motivation behind massive protests", the Organization's recent report, "said developer by sales declines, credit tightening and local governments require their continued pressure drag. In this case, construction workers always the last one to get a paycheck. ”

It was reported that in March this year, 21 construction workers managed to get to a railway company management pay, was hired by the developers of rogue thugs attacked, 1 construction workers were killed. The above-mentioned survey near one-third, a construction worker, said as they try to beg salaries had been subjected to harassment and the threat of force.

(Original title: US media: Chinese construction migrant workers want to contract is not a slave)

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