Several hundred railway workers from the Zhuzhou depot in Hunan staged a mass protest at the province’s main railway station in Changsha on 2 August over long-standing grievances at the railway company’s staff deployment system,
This is the latest in a series of strikes by transport workers in China this year but the first by railway workers. The authorities were quick to send mediators to the scene to resolve the dispute lest it cause disruption on the high-speed rail link between Changsha and Guangzhou.
The drivers’ main complaints related to the shift system and overtime payments. One driver from the Zhuzhou depot said workers regularly did excessive overtime and could not get enough sleep between shifts, leading to fatigue and putting the safe operation of trains at risk. More details here.
Several hundred railway workers from the Zhuzhou depot in Hunan staged a mass protest at the province’s main railway station in Changsha on 2 August over long-standing grievances at the railway company’s staff deployment system,
This is the latest in a series of strikes by transport workers in China this year but the first by railway workers. The authorities were quick to send mediators to the scene to resolve the dispute lest it cause disruption on the high-speed rail link between Changsha and Guangzhou.
The drivers’ main complaints related to the shift system and overtime payments. One driver from the Zhuzhou depot said workers regularly did excessive overtime and could not get enough sleep between shifts, leading to fatigue and putting the safe operation of trains at risk. More details here.
