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"Hostile" forces stirring up China jobless: official
Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:57am EST
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China must guard against "hostile forces" within and outside the country working to stir up trouble among its masses of newly unemployed workers, a senior trade union official said in comments published on Wednesday.
Beijing's Communist Party leadership has issued repeated warnings that legions of idle rural workers gathered in the country's struggling export hubs could pose a threat to the social stability.
Clashes between police and unpaid workers locked out of failed factories have flared up across China in recent months, but the government bans independent trade unions, depriving workers of a key channel for resolving disputes.
Sun Chunlan, vice-chairman of the state-backed All-China Federation of Trade Unions, said that police taskforces had been "rushed" to all regions to "understand the situation with regional social stability," the Beijing News paraphrased him as saying during a teleconference with officials.
Authorities needed to rigorously guard against "hostile forces within and outside China using the difficulties of some enterprises to infiltrate and bring trouble to rural migrant workers," Sun said. He did not elaborate.
After enacting a landmark labor law last year giving greater protection to the country's 130 million migrant workers, labor rights groups have accused officials of turning a blind eye to violations amid economic hardship to help factory owners survive the financial crisis.
Sun said China's official trade unions would extend aid to more than 10 million migrant workers, in the form of job training or "living assistance."
But about 20 million jobs have been lost in Guangdong province alone, southern China's manufacturing hub where a third of the country's exports are produced, an official from China's top planning agency said on Tuesday.
A senior Guangdong police official on Tuesday warned of a "grim" public security outlook in the province bordering Hong Kong, warning that ranks of jobless workers could be "tempted by crime and become a factor of instability."
Police in neighboring Fujian province shot two robbery suspects, killing one, after they resisted arrest and injured five policemen during a raid, Xinhua news agency said in a separate report.
The two were among nine members of a gang that carried out armed robberies at construction sites across Fujian's Quanzhou city, injuring dozens and stealing more than 1 million yuan ($146,000), the agency said, citing police.
Dozens of shop tenants and workers protested outside a market in Beijing's Russian district on Wednesday, as part of a dispute over rent with the building's landlord.
"Because of the financial crisis, we are in all in economic hardship, and tried to negotiate the rent down. But the boss just shut up our spokesman's shop and threw all his stock away as an example for the rest of us," a shop tenant surnamed Ying said.
Beijing also fears disgruntled students unable to find jobs on graduation are another potential headache, and has unleashed a raft of incentives to prompt employers to employ them.
An official from Beijing's municipal labor bureau said all unemployed graduates with permanent residence in the capital would receive "at least one job offer by suitable employers in the coming month," the official China Daily newspaper said in a separate report. Continued...
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