BSR Insight | China’s Social Security System: Impact on Brands and Suppliers
About the Author(s)
Jeremy Prepscius, Vice President, Asia-Pacific
Publication Date
December 4, 2012
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In China, social security, labor, and trade union laws are changing. At the same time, worker demands and desires are also evolving. With costs of production and workers’ expectations both rising, a middle ground is increasingly difficult to find. Consequently, negotiations often end in strikes, which affect workers, factories, and buyers.
How is this playing out in the Pearl River Delta—the manufacturing hub of the world?
In a new podcast, BSR Vice President for Asia-Pacific Jeremy Prepscius and Manager Jason Ho talk with China Labour Bulletin’s Communications Director Geoff Crothall and Development Director William Nee about the collective bargaining challenges facing factory managers, workers, brands, and China-based suppliers.
“A successful strike happens in one factory or one industry, and then you get this domino effect … It is very important that people wake up to the fact that workers are demanding proper pensions, proper health care, and insurance for when they’re unemployed or when they start a family.”
—Geoff Crothall, Communications Director, China Labour Bulletin, BSR Podcast
About the Author(s)
Jeremy Prepscius, Vice President, Asia-Pacific
Jeremy is in charge of serving and expanding the member base in Asia and integrating the work there into the BSR global approach, focusing on issues such as water, the next generation of social compliance work in the supply chain, the evolution of CSR with Chinese characteristics and the framing of CSR issues in Asia... Read more →
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