ACTIONS OF MIGRANT WORKERS’PENSION RIGHTS
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Advocacy on law system and response
from govt
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Mobilize workers to take actions
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Organize workers to concern about
pension related issues
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Background and importance of the
actions
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Current situation on the issues
and policy advocacy works
Background and importance of the actions
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Corporations
Background and importance of the actions
1. 1960’s workers, esp women workers are going to retire soon without ension benefits；
2. Workers worked at least for 10-15 years
3. Workers know nothing about the penson scheme
4. Workers don’t know about the way and channels to fight for their rights
Workers
1. Illegal operation of the enterprise
2. Corporat didn’t pay the workers pension fee
3. Relocation of manufacturing and foreign investment
System/ Govt
Background and importance of the actions 2
1、The contradictions between local and national social protection
policy, which leads to the difficulties on implmenetation
2、The promotion on pension scheme from the local govt is weak
3、Local govt’s non-action to the enterprise implementing pension scheme
4、Local govt turns a blind eye to the reporting from workers
5、Industrial upgrade of local industries, reform of all entreprises
Public/ Media
Background and importance of the actions 3
1、They cant see or understand the reality of retirement and pension of the workers
2、Wish different stakeholders in the society to speak together with the workers
3、Hope that mainstream media and official media can conduct in-depth interviewes and continuous report to attract the public’s attention
4、To call for experts and scholar on social protection and labour to discuss together
Organize workers to concern about pension related issues
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Expand the outreach area on legal promotion
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Organize training regularly based on workers interest
Conduct needs assessment做
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Visits and case study
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Provide free legal consultation services
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Organize recreational activities for
the workers
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Build relationships with workers’ families
Mobilize workers to take actions
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Establish workers pension self support group
Organize online and offline pension
discussions regularly
Communicate and support the workers, their
families and friends
Mobilize workers to
take actions
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Attend local groups exchange regularly
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Mobilize the workers who are in need
to take actions
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Encourage workers to speak up and tell their
stories
Advocacy on law system and response from govt
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Collective actions at the factory level (elect workers representatives, organize, strike and negotiations)
Our Actions
Response from Govt
1、Call the Social Protection Bureau, Labour
Department and official unions to involve in
the negotiations
1、Workers from different places
organize petition together
2、Workers find a way to talk
to the top officials
1、Sincere, patient and provide legal support
2、Person in charge disappeared and shirks their
responsibility
Sent opinions letter to the local govt
during the two sessions through local
NPC deputies
The proposals approved during the two sessions are different, so it is difficult to pay attention to them all the time.
1、Sent recommendations letter together with local organizations, university and scholars
2、Mobilize workers online and offline to submit advocacy letter and ecommendations on system improvements
When the central government attaches great attention to it, local governments will also feel the pressure of public opinion
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Regular exchange on SP for workers to
voice their issues to the public, bring
the narratives of the workers to the
public
There are spaces to organize meetings before 2016,
but the chance to organize meetings on SP are
limited due to the pandemic
Nation wide movie screening and
post-screening stories telling
Local government and NGOs support such activities
Continuous legal actions to the local
government for law reform (more
than 10 years)
1、Gov’t wont intervene our actions, but the law
and regulations, which lead to the lost of our cases
2、Pressure of the lawyers
1、Write the stories together with the
workers, and post it to our social media
2、Connect local media, independent
media, students who is interested on
this topic
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1、The articles may delete or block on the social
media
2、Pressure of the reporters when they cover the
issues
Our Actions
Response from Govt
Current situation on the issues and policy advocacy works
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1、Limited spaces to organize, most
of the right-based organizations
were closed or change their focus
Difficult to form a collective voice
Organizers force to look for other spaces
Limited spaces, job insecurity
Hard to have collective actions, can only support individual cases
Due to pandemic and change of
national policy, social media, students,
and scholars’ interests changed
Policy advocacy realities
Due to factory closure or relocation,
workers force return to their hometown
Fragmentization of collective workers
power
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Same policy and pension for the local
government, but the benefits are
different
Since the pandemic, the platform
economy developed fast (such as
food delivery, ride-hailing, online
streaming, entertainments, content creators)
Workers forced to change their work to diversify
their income
Lack of independent thinking
Policy advocacy realities
Since 2020, central gov’t has been promoting
rural revitalization policy
Provide different support policies, attract workers
to start their own businesses in their hometown
Workers go back to their hometown and work as
agricultural worker or start their own business, which
fragmentized the workers solidarity
2012-2013年
2014年
2015年
2016年
2021年至今
Establish social protection group to promote, and conduct research, joint issue advocacy, and collective action by factory workers
Exchanges, litigation, media in-depth coverage, collective actions
Local and overseas exchange, photography exhibitions, collective actions by factory workers
Change litigation strategy and continue to file lawsuits, collective petitions, video releases, reporter interviews, and collective actions by factory workers
The action was successful, and the workers began to pay back social protection and apply for retirement, and continued to litigate.
Reporter interview
Path of migrant workers pension actions
2017年
2018-2020年
Concern group transform; lawsuits continue
Conduct research on social protection repayment payments and advocate improvements in government social protection policies;
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Carry out online and offline activities, provide case support, and continue to litigate cases.
Economic platform conducts social protection research and advocates improvements in government social protection policies
Workers all over the world are one family and we will act together for a better life for our workers. Thank you for listening!