Robin Munro (1 June 1952 – 19 May 2021) was a British legal scholar, author, and human rights advocate. He received his PhD from the Department of Law, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.[1] (wikipedia)
We know that many workers are walking around being owed a year or two years' wages. It is not uncommon at all.
One of the main problems right now is that miners' lives are simply too cheap. The mines don't have to make safety a priority.
Then the mine operators might take it seriously.
What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.
They're making miners work excessively long shifts. They have too many miners underground.
No one is out there keeping officials' feet to the fire to see that the law is applied. The whole government policy is so heavily slanted toward the investors these days that they've totally lost sight of social justice.
Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.
If you publicize a problem but do nothing about it, what you produce is compassion fatigue. You get a lot of reports about these disasters, but nothing ever changes. Just publicity by itself is not nearly enough.
Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option.
