“释放吴贵军！”——10月23日世界各地共同抗议
深圳工人代表被警方拘押长达五个月之久 中国劳工论坛（chinaworker.info） 到10月23日（星期三），深圳的普通外来工吴贵军已被警方拘押达五个月，而且直到最近才遭到正式起诉。数月来他被剥夺与律师见面的机会。吴贵军的真正“罪行”是，深圳迪威信家庭用品工厂决定迁往惠州，他与其他几名工人一起被厂里的工人们选为代表，与管理层就赔偿问题进行谈判。 10月23日在世界各地的数个城市将举行国际抗议活动以呼吁释放吴贵军和抗议将工人维权斗争入罪。在科伦坡、加尔各答、香港和柏林，社会主义者和劳工活动分子计划将此案昭示给中国当局、本地媒体和工会组织。中国劳工论坛（chinaworker.info）发起这一活动的目的是增加压力，要求深圳当局释放吴贵军，停止迫害工人行使罢工、组织和示威的基本权利。 今年五月初，深圳宝安区生产家庭用品的迪威信工厂约300名工人举行罢工，以抗议这家港资公司管理层关闭深圳工厂，拒绝遵循相关的中国《劳动合同法》进行赔偿。按照法律规定，工人每工作满一年应得到相当于1个月工资的补偿金。 大规模逮捕 由于对管理层坚决不妥协而深感不满，迪威信的工人决定5月23日游行到区政府上访，要求官员介入冲突和执行法律。但是，警方对集体上访进行了大规模逮捕，后来释放了大部分工人。但警方似乎决定把吴贵军案作为典型案例以阻吓其他工人发动类似被认为威胁到“稳定”的抗议活动。警方的打击对迪威信工人抗争是一个残酷的打击，大部分工人之后被迫接受管理层非常低的赔偿，工作每满一年仅给予400元的补偿（远低于法律上规定的水平）。
中国各地的工人，特别是在沿海省份一带，都面临着类似的困难境地。一波工厂倒闭和搬迁的浪潮引发大量拖欠工资和赔偿的纠纷，在数个案例中为逃避支付工资和其他责任，老板们甚至弃厂潜逃。因此吴贵军案也是用来检验中国工人权利状况和不断增长的地方当局将抗议活动刑事入罪趋势的经典案例。而这一事件发生在广东省也尤为重要，——因为以前广东省被视为比中国其他省份对公众抗议更为宽容。在中国劳工论坛（chinaworker.info）报道的另一案例中，今年八月十二名保安在广东省省会广州市的某医院进行集体抗议期间被捕，他们也面临类似的刑事指控。毫不奇怪，这些案件正吸引到国际工会运动越来越多的关注（遗憾的是到现在为止他们在组织团结声援遭到超额剥削的中国工人方面做得还远远不够）。数家工会和国际组织已经开始转发要求释放吴贵军的请愿书，例如国际食品、农业、旅馆、餐厅、餐饮、烟草联合工人协会（国际食品劳联 IUF）已发起相关的呼吁。 长达五年的监禁？ 据吴贵军律师庞琨的个人博客信息，公安机关在9月份已将此案移送给检察院，吴贵军最终面对的正式指控是“聚众扰乱交通秩序罪”，这可能导致判处长达五年的有期徒刑。吴贵军今年40岁，有一双年幼的孩子和两个年迈的父母需要赡养。他的家人因为他遭到逮捕和可能面临监禁导致严重的困难。他的妻子也是一名在深圳的外来务工人员，每月只有微薄的2000元工资，这是他们全家目前唯一的收入来源。尽管面对这些艰辛，吴贵军通过他的律师庞琨转达：“为了工友的权利，如果一定要有人坐牢，他愿意承担！”。 总部位于香港观塘的迪威信公司在这起纠纷的整个过程中对深圳员工才取了极为粗暴的行为。不仅拒绝提高给予工人的补偿，而且根据参与谈判的工人代表的描述，“厂里拿着摄像机照来照去，把我们这些人都照怕了。第二次就没几个人敢再去了，怕被报复。”这明显是在蓄意恐吓工人，而且取得了一些成功。但是“老吴是一直参与谈判的，没有退出来过。”在日常的中国工人抗争中处处都有这样充满勇气的案例。
同时值得一提的是，尽管迪威信的工人向中华全国总工会深圳市总工会呈送请愿书要求他们关注与介入吴贵军案，但是官方工会迄今未发一言。工人们在今年9月份吴贵军被拘押100天时发布了第一份请愿信。而在本周吴贵军被关押145天后又发布第二封请愿信，请愿信得到了数百名工人和支持者的签名。
请点击此处链接，签署中国劳工论坛（chinaworker.info）给中国当局的抗议信。 声援吴贵军，了解和参与你所在地区的10月23日国际抗议日活动，请关注我们的Facebook页面 释放吴贵军！ 停止将中国工人抗争入罪！ 支持罢工和组建独立工会的权利！ 团结声援中国工人！ “Release Wu Guijun” – protests around the world on 23 October Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months chinaworker.info On Wednesday 23 October, Wu Guijun, a migrant worker in Shenzhen, will have been held in police detention for five months. Wu has only very recently been formally charged. For months he was denied contact with his lawyer. Wu’s real ‘crime’ was to be elected along with several other workers to represent the workforce at the Diweixin Product Factory in Shenzhen, a huge city in southern China’s Guangdong province, in negotiations with management over severance terms following the company’s decision to relocate to Huizhou. International protests will take place on 23 October in several cities around the world to call for Wu’s release and protest the criminalisation of workers’ struggle which this case highlights. From Colombo and Calcutta to Hong Kong and Berlin, socialists and labour activists are planning to take this case to the Chinese authorities, local media and trade union bodies. This initiative from chinaworker.info is intended to increase pressure on the Shenzhen authorities to release Wu and cease the persecution of workers exercising their basic rights to strike, organise and demonstrate. In early May this year, around 300 workers at the Diweixin Product Factory in Shenzhen’s Baoan district, which manufactures household products, took strike action in protest at the management’s refusal to follow the terms of China’s revised Labour Contract Law in respect of its decision to close down the Shenzhen plant. The law states that workers should receive compensation at the rate of one month’s salary for every completed year of service. The Hong Kong-owned company is in breach of this law. Mass arrests Frustrated over management intransigence, the Diweixin workers decided to march to the district government offices on 23 May, to petition officials to step into the conflict and enforce the law. But instead, police carried out mass arrests at this demonstration, later releasing most of the workers. The police seem to have decided to make an example of Wu Guijun to deter other workers from waging similar protests that are deemed a threat to “stability”. The police crackdown was a cruel blow to the Diweixin workers’ struggle, and most workers subsequently accepted the management’s very low offer of just 400 yuan for each year of service (far below the legally stipulated level). Workers across China, especially in the coastal provinces, are facing similar difficulties with a wave of factory closures and relocations, disputes over wage arrears and severance pay, and several cases of bosses absconding without paying wages and other entitlements. The case of Wu Guijun is therefore a test case for workers’ rights in China and the growing trend of local authorities criminalising protest. It is also significant that this happening in Guangdong province – previously regarded as more tolerant of public protests than other provinces in China. In another case, as reported on chinaworker.info, a dozen security guards at a major hospital in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, were arrested during a protest in August and may face similar criminal charges. Not surprisingly, these cases are attracting growing attention from the international trade union movement (which unfortunately has until now not done enough to organise solidarity for super-exploited Chinese workers). Several trade unions and their international coordinating bodies are circulating petitions demanding Wu’s release, as in this example initiated by the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF). A five-year jail sentence? According to the personal blog of Wu’s lawyer, the public security bureau transferred the case to the prosecutor’s office in September. Formal charges have finally been filed against Wu Guijun for “gathering a crowd” and “causing a traffic disturbance”, which could lead to a jail term of up to five years. Wu is 40 years old and supports two children and his elderly parents. His arrest and possible imprisonment will cause severe hardship for his family. His wife, also a migrant worker in Shenzhen, is now the sole income earner on a typical migrant worker’s monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. Despite these hardships, through his lawyer Wu declared: “If I must go to jail for standing up for the rights of my fellow workers, I am ready to take this responsibility”. The Diweixin company, headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, has adopted brutal tactics against its Shenzhen workforce throughout the course of this dispute. While refusing to increase their offer of compensation, management insisted on filming negotiations with the workers’ representatives. This was clearly aimed at intimidating workers, with some success. Several of the workers’ representatives withdrew in fear of reprisals, but not Wu himself. The workers’ movement in China is filled with such examples of everyday courage. The same cannot be said of the official government-run trade union, ACFTU, which has so far not uttered a word on this case. This is despite a petition from Diweixin workers to the Shenzhen office of the ACFTU asking them to take up the case. The first such letter was presented in September after Wu had been in detention for 100 days. Another petition letter, this one signed by several hundred workers and their supporters, was given to the ACFTU officials this week. To sign chinaworker.info’s protest letter to Chinese authorities follow this link. To participate in the international protest day on 23 October, check activities for your local area or let us know about your plans – see our facebook page. Free Wu Guijun! Stop the criminalisation of workers’ struggle in China! For the right to strike and independent trade unions! Solidarity with Chinese workers! |
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