Gold Mantis Labor

[Gold Mantis Labor @GoldMantisLabor]

Workers at @imperial_pac #saipan laid off; minimal severance. They want answers from management.

[Saipan Tribune @saipantribune01]

#LOCAL Nearly a hundred former employees of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC have accepted being laid off just before the holidays, but they hope that someone from upper management could provide them with answer to some of their questions. https://t.co/XVdSBBzzdt

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

I encounter this problem all the time when reporting on China-Africa. How to assess China's 'debt diplomacy' when "information on the maturity, cost and terms of loans is next to non-existent"?
https://t.co/TE1BXsU2Uj

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

"...Hundreds of vocational school students [were] drafted into warehouses in Beijing and the eastern city of Kunshan, and told they had to work 12- to 16-hour shifts in some cases through the night, at a steep discount to the minimum wage"

[Worker Empowerment @WorkerEmpower]

Attorney of Fu Changguo, who had been arrested due to to JASIC case, had withdrawn from the case.

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

A crackdown on student labor activists and factory workers is spreading nationwide as security forces round up activists in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads https://t.co/KzN5xsrrHn

[Worker Empowerment @WorkerEmpower]

In support of the laid-off workers who used to make clothes for international garment giant UNIQLO. They will be going to UNIQLO's Japan headquarter demanding their severance pay which should had been paid year ago. https://t.co/tIBTroAo9p

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

#Saipan Congressman @Kilili_Sablan asks @USDOL to explain why it allows @imperial_pac to lay off US construction workers and bring in 1600+ foreign H-2B workers https://t.co/QAsgwUxofb via @Marianas Variety #migrants #constructionworker @BizHumanRights @GLJhub @BWIglobal

[BWI Global Union @BWIglobal]

Imperial Pacific will earn millions of dollars but the workers did not even get minimum wage for the hours they spent building it: https://t.co/MYjq3gtOGa

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

Another 40+ @imperial_pac casino #workers from #China protest. Paid recruitment fees, security deposits. Never paid #overtime. Being sent home early. #Saipan govt culpable for still allowing casino to monitor itself. As we said, need indepndnt oversight. https://t.co/HposQbMjGy

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

"Apply laws to foreign labour too." Leaders in #Malaysia call for equal rights for #migrants, who are excluded from most #laborrights protections. https://t.co/RDkpue7U66 #HumanRights #HumanTrafficking #migration #bizhr

[Gold Mantis Labor @GoldMantisLabor]

And @imperial_pac statement that it hired its own (unnamed) consultant for #Saipan project misses the point of an "independent" and "transparent" monitor... #workersafety #bizhumanrights @AdrianaCoteroTV @Kilili_Sablan @SaipanJustice

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

Disappointing response from @imperial_pac casino #Saipan boasting "proven record" partnering w/firms with "strong safety records." The ACTUAL RECORD is 3 partners fined $193,750 by @OSHA_DOL for 24 violations; 80 serious injuries; multiple worker deaths. https://t.co/Tc0R2udHcZ

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

Excellent @FT feature on prevalence of forced labor & debt bondage — "where people end up working for little or no wages in order to repay debts, often under threat of violence" — in construction industry. https://t.co/RJ4DbmEUvp #HumanTrafficking #labor #Workers @BizHumanRights

[Chuang @chuangcn]

Translated statements by workers & supporters being held in criminal detention for organizing a union at #Jasic (#佳士) electronics plant in #Pingshan (#坪山), #Shenzhen, since #July20 https://t.co/RZcPmvOOiJ #China

[Saipan Tribune @saipantribune01]

Construction firm GPPC Inc. is demanding Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC to pay off its outstanding balance for the services they rendered in the construction of the Imperial Pacific Resort in Garapan. #SaipanTribuneHeadline https://t.co/WIZEGSVirm

[Gold Mantis Labor @GoldMantisLabor]

Workers not the only ones in #Saipan short-changed by @imperial_pac - local contractor GPPC says IPI owes $150K https://t.co/jguTsCPzJc via @Marianas Variety

[Saipan Tribune @saipantribune01]

Snippets | Training Match: CNMI vs Shonan Bellmare
#SaipanTribuneSports https://t.co/Bkb6QbMNvy

[Aaron Halegua @AHalegua]

I applaud this #Saipan legislator's common-sense proposal: @imperial_pac should not be trusted to monitor itself. The need for independent oversight of #labor and #safety conditions is clear. @BizHumanRights @Kilili_Sablan @GLJhub https://t.co/2WBNxKDUk3 via @Marianas Variety

[Gold Mantis Labor @GoldMantisLabor]

@imperial_pac latest bait-and-switch? Casino promised @SenatorCantwell @lisamurkowski to use US construction workers after revealed project exploiting underpaid Chinese in unsafe conditions. But now sending US workers home, bringing in 1000+ foreign H2Bs. https://t.co/fdDtUdXodt