"You'll be fired if you refuse": labor abuses in Zambia's Chinese state-owned copper mines
The past decade has seen burgeoning investment across Africa by private and state-run Chinese enterprises. This report examines the labor practices of a Chinese state-owned enterprise in four copper mining operations in Zambia. While Zambia's copper miners welcome Chinese-run companies' su...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The past decade has seen burgeoning investment across Africa by private and state-run Chinese enterprises. This report examines the labor practices of a Chinese state-owned enterprise in four copper mining operations in Zambia. While Zambia's copper miners welcome Chinese-run companies' substantial investment and job creation, they also encounter abusive employment conditions that violate national and international standards and fall short of practices among the other multinationals operating in Zambia's copper mining industry. Miners at Chinese-run companies described consistently poor health and safety standards, including inadequate ventilation that can lead to serious lung diseases, hours of work in excess of Zambian law, the failure to replace workers' damaged protective equipment, and routine threats of being fired should they refuse to work in unsafe places. These practices, combined with the already dangerous nature of the work, cause injuries and other health complications. Many of the labor practices in Zambia seem to be exported from China's domestic mining industry, with safety and health measures treated as irritating barriers to greater profits, rather than as good business practices, both in the Chinese domestic mining industry and in Chinese-run mines in Zambia. Primary responsibility for ensuring that Zambia's copper mines operate in accordance with national and international standards rests with the Zambian government, which has largely failed to enforce the country's labor laws and mining regulations. A September 20, 2011, presidential election brought to power longtime opposition politician Michael Sata, who has long been critical of labor practices in Chinese-run companies. Sata should now demonstrate that his rhetoric will be matched by action to protect workers' rights |
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H U M AN
R I G H TS
W A T CH
NOVEMBER 2011 II^HHIIL^HH ISBN: 1-56432-824-4
YOU LL BE FIRED IF YOU REFUSE
LABOR ABUSES IN ZAMBIA S CHINESE STATE-OWNED COPPER MINES
MAP OF ZAMBIA I
SUMMARY 1
RECOMMENDATIONS 7
TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA 7
TO THE MINISTRY OF MINES AND MINERAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE MINES
SAFETY DEPARTMENT 7
TO THE MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY 8
TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT 8
TO CHINA NON-FERROUS METALS MINING CORPORATION 8
TO THE STATE-OWNED ASSETS SUPERVISION AND ADMINISTRATION COMMISSION
(SASAC) OF CHINA S
STATE COUNCIL , 9
METHODOLOGY 10
I. BACKGROUND 13
A BODY OF WORK ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 14
CHINA IN AFRICA 14
HISTORY OF ZAMBIA S COPPER INDUSTRY 17
COPPER MINING OPERATIONS IN ZAMBIA 18
ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT AS MINORITY OWNER ....20
CHINESE INVESTMENT IN ZAMBIA, COPPER INDUSTRY 20
LABOR PROBLEMS AND LOW WAGES IN THE CHINESE MINES 22
EXPORTING ABUSES?: SIMILAR LABOR PROBLEMS IN CHINA S MINING INDUSTRY 25
POLITICIZATION OF CHINESE INVESTMENT, 2011 ELECTION 26
GOOD INVESTORS, BUT BAD EMPLOYERS : DICHOTOMY BETWEEN WELCOMED CHINESE
INVESTMENT AND ABUSIVE LABOR PRACTICES 30
II. HEALTH AND SAFETY 32
HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARDS , 33
FAILURE TO PROVIDE POTABLE WATER 38
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) 39
CASUAL WORKERS AT SINO METALS: NO PPE, LABOR LAW LOOPHOLES 45
HOW CAN WE PICK ONE CHILD? : FAMILY MEDICAL CARE AT SINO-ZAM FRIENDSHIP
HOSPITAL 49
IMAGE 2
COMPANY SAFETY OFFICERS WITHOUT AUTHORITY 50
THREATS AGAINST WORKERS REFUSING TO WORK IN UNSAFE AREAS 54
MAKING GOOD ON THEIR THREATS: FIRINGS AND DOCKED PAY 59
BEST SAFETY PRACTICES IN ZAMBIA S COPPER INDUSTRY 61
DELIBERATE FAILURE TO REPORT ACCIDENTS 63
PROBLEM OF SUBCONTRACTORS ATKONKOLA COPPER MINES (KCM) , 67
GOVERNMENT S MINES SAFETY DEPARTMENT 68
PHYSICAL ABUSE BY CHINESE SUPERVISORS 73
III. HOURS AND OVERTIME 75
EXCESSIVE WORKING HOURS AT SINO METALS, CCS 75
IMPROVEMENTS AT NFCA, EXCEPT FOR DOUBLE SHIFT UNDERGROUND 82
IV. ANTI-UNION ACTIVITIES 85
EFFORTS TO BAR MUZ AT CCS, SINO METALS 86
INTIMIDATING UNION REPRESENTATIVES 91
INTIMIDATION AGAINST UNION REPRESENTATIVES IN OTHER COPPER MINES 95
V. CONCLUSION 97
ANNEX I: LETTER TO CNMC AND RESPONSE 99
ANNEX II: COPPER PRICE, 2001-2011 113
ANNEX III: FUNDING FOR MINES SAFETY DEPARTMENT 114
ANNEX IV: WAGES IN CHINESE AND OTHER FOREIGN-OWNED MINES IN ZAMBIA AS OF
SEPTEMBER 2011 117
ANNEX V: SALARY BREAKDOWN AT SINO METALS AND CCS AS OF SEPTEMBER 2011
121
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 122
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