Jasic Technology Company Ltd. (Chinese: 佳士科技; pinyin: Jiāshì Kējì; Jyutping: gaai1 si6 fo1 gei6) is a Chinese corporation operating out of Shenzhen, in the province of Guangdong. Its headquarters are in Pingshan New District.[3]
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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Welding Equipment and Services |
| Founded | 2005, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China |
| Headquarters | Shenzhen, China |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | Welding-Related products |
| Website | Jasictech.com |
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| Chinese | 深圳市佳士科技股份有限公司 | ||||||||||
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The company manufactures and sells inverter welding machines, engine driven welders and other welder equipment primarily used in construction.[2] Jasic is listed on The Shenzhen Stock Exchange.[1][2]
Jasic was the center of a labor and political conflict in the city of Guangdong, referred to as the Jasic Incident.[4]
Overview
editJasic Technology Company was founded in 2005 in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Jasic presently operates three factories in Shenzhen: Jasic Industrial Park, Chongqing Yunda Industrial Park, and Chengdu Jasic Industrial Park.[2]
2018 labour dispute
editThe Jasic Technology Company was at the center of a widely reported controversy regarding the treatment of employees at Jasic Industrial Park in Shenzhen. Workers at the plant cited low pay, long hours, poor working conditions and, in addition, accused the management of Jasic of violating Chinese labor laws through illegal coerced overtime and excessive company fines.[5]
In May 2018 several employees of Jasic petitioned to form a labor union with the All-China In Federation of Trade Unions, which was rejected. The workers decided to continue to build their union independently, workers reported that union organizers were attacked and beaten so after.[6][5] Tensions sparked on 27 July when twenty nine workers and supporters were arrested and allegedly beaten by Shenzhen Police.[5][6]
In response to the arrests, at noon on Monday, 6 August a group of eighty demonstrators publicly protested against the detainment outside of the Yanziling police station.[6]
"At noon on Monday, about 80 supporters staged a second rally under the scorching sun outside Yanziling police station in Shenzhen’s Pingshan district, about 50 km (31 miles) from the border with Hong Kong. More than 40 Communist Party members and retired cadres, who are part of the country’s leading Maoist internet forum, Utopia, joined the rally."
A wide range of public figures condemned Chinese suppression of labor activists including MIT professor Noam Chomsky,[7] Chinese labor activist Li Qiang,[8] University of Hong Kong professor Pun Ngai,[9] Chris Chan King-chi,[6] Jenny Chan,[10] Neo-Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek,[11] American socialist journal Jacobin,[12] Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,[13] and Cornell University.
References
edit- ^ a b "Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co., LTD.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d "About Us|Jasictech_Shenzhen Jasic technology Co., Ltd". Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Contact JASIC". Jasic Technology Company Ltd. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
Address: No. 3, Qinglan 1st Road, Pingshan New District, Shenzhen, China
- ^ Blanchette, Jude D. (2019). China's New Red Guard. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 391.
On July 27, twenty-nine workers from the Jasic factory were detained for "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a vague charge frequently used by the authorities to quash speech or action that isn't covered by more specific legal statutes. One month later, heavily armed police arrested fifty students and workers who had begun a campaign to push for the release of the detained workers. Back in Beijing, the government raided the offices of the sympathetic Red Reference magazine, detaining one employee. "They searched every corner of our offices, and even smashed a cupboard, and took our computers, our books away in a bunch of boxes," said magazine editor-in-chief Cheng Hongtao.
- ^ a b c "深圳佳士维权： 中国社媒审查与致习公开信". BBC News 中文. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d Lau, Mimi (10 August 2018). "Chinese Maoists join students in fight for workers' rights". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
At noon on Monday, about 80 supporters staged a second rally under the scorching sun outside Yanziling police station in Shenzhen's Pingshan district, about 50km (31 miles) from the border with Hong Kong. More than 40 Communist Party members and retired cadres, who are part of the country's leading Maoist internet forum, Utopia, joined the rally.
- ^ Yang, Yuan (27 November 2018). "Noam Chomsky joins academics boycotting China Marxism conferences". Financial Times. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ 潘毅 (17 August 2018). "观点：深圳佳士工人维权的两大意义". BBC News 中文. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ Haas, Benjamin (12 November 2018). "Student activists detained in China for supporting workers' rights". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ Chan, Jenny (2020). "A Precarious Worker-Student Alliance in Xi's China". China Review. 20 (1): 165–190. ISSN 1015-6607.
- ^ Zizek, Slavoj (29 November 2018). "'The mysterious case of disappearing Chinese Marxists shows what happens when state ideology goes badly wrong'". The Independent. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ^ Hui, Elaine; Friedman, Eli (2005). "The Communist Party vs. China's Labor Laws". jacobinmag.com. Jacobin. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "Rights group calls on China to free detained labour activists". South China Morning Post. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.