Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. Explained

Jasic Technology Company Ltd.
Type:Public
Industry:Welding Equipment and Services
Foundation:, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Location:Shenzhen, China
Area Served:Worldwide
Products:Welding-Related products
Footnotes:[1] [2]

Jasic Technology Company Ltd. is a Chinese corporation operating out of Shenzhen, in the province of Guangdong. Its headquarters are in Pingshan New District.[3]

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

Jasic 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.

2018 labour dispute

See main article: Jasic incident.

The 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] Tensions sparked on 27 July when twenty nine workers and supporters were arrested and allegedly beaten by Shenzhen Police.

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.

"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 Pan Yi,[9] Chris Chan King-chi, Neo-Hegelian philosopher Slavoj Žižek,[10] American socialist journal Jacobin,[11] Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,[12] and Cornell University.

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co.,LTD.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg . . 1 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190101100549/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=61046745 . 1 January 2019 . dead .
  2. Web site: About Us|Jasictech_Shenzhen Jasic technology Co., Ltd . 1 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190104005847/http://www.jasictech.com/html/en/about-jasic/ . 4 January 2019 . dead .
  3. Web site: Contact JASIC. Jasic Technology Company Ltd.. 12 July 2019. Address: No. 3, Qinglan 1st Road, Pingshan New District, Shenzhen, China.
  4. Book: Blanchette, Jude D.. China's New Red Guard. Oxford University Press. 2019. Oxford. 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..
  5. News: 深圳佳士维权： 中国社媒审查与致习公开信. 23 August 2018. BBC News 中文. 1 January 2019. en-GB.
  6. News: Chinese Maoists join students in fight for workers' rights. Lau. Mimi. 10 August 2018. South China Morning Post. 31 December 2018. en. "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.".
  7. News: Noam Chomsky joins academics boycotting China Marxism conferences. Yang. Yuan. 27 November 2018. Financial Times. 26 December 2018.
  8. News: 观点：深圳佳士工人维权的两大意义. 潘毅. 17 August 2018. BBC News 中文. 1 January 2019. en-GB.
  9. News: Student activists detained in China for supporting workers' rights. Haas. Benjamin. 12 November 2018. The Guardian. 31 December 2018. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  10. News: 'The mysterious case of disappearing Chinese Marxists shows what happens when state ideology goes badly wrong'. Zizek. Slavoj. 29 November 2018. The Independent. 19 December 2018.
  11. Web site: The Communist Party vs. China's Labor Laws. Hui. Elaine. Friedman. Eli. 2005. jacobinmag.com. Jacobin. 31 December 2018.
  12. Web site: Rights group calls on China to free detained labour activists. 4 December 2018. South China Morning Post. en. 1 January 2019.

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