our dispatch No. 110623). According to the CLB, this conflict, greatly relayed, served as a new stallion for the social disputes that grew afterwards. However, the report notes that a number of young strikers subsequently left the company or kept a low profile, meaning that the valuable experience gained from organizing workers and negotiating with management were largely lost. However, the CLB is using this to show that the new generation of migrant workers is causing a number of changes in the country.
30,000 labor-related disputes in 2009. Even though the government stopped publishing statistics on ‘mass incidents,’ it has been estimated that there were some 90,000 mass incidents throughout China in 2009, the vast majority of which were triggered by specific rights violations. It is further estimated that around one third of those protests were labor-related, which puts the number of strikes and collective worker protests in 2009 at around 30,000, with some taking extremely violent turns.