On August 24^th, three staff and one recruited volunteer from the Beijing Yilian Legal Service and Study Center of Labor had held a legal publicity activity at Liu Li Qiao East where there concentrated a large number of migrant workers. The hot weather did not keep them from providing services for migrant workers. They took around 300 booklets of labor-related legal knowledge and distributed them. The hope is, through this booklet, migrant workers are no longer bothered with labor disputes and work-related injury and diseases, and are prepared with relevant knowledge to protect their labor rights and interests through legal approach.


 
At the beginning of this activity, a few passerbies considered the booklets as flyers and refused to take them, also some of the elders were asking for the add-on shopping bags. However, after the staff and volunteer had explained those booklets were prepared for target population, the public was highly positive and supportive about this kind of activity. This well-designed and professional booklet includes three main parts: basic laborer’ rights and interests, common scenarios that workers’ rights are easily violated, and corresponding approaches for different cases in details. Four securities were asking for the booklets, and carefully read it for a while, followed by occasional discussion. Such behavior means a lot for the whole team and their efforts.


 
During this program, numerous migrant workers had shown their appreciation and support, while some of them were not willing to take it for some reasons. It means that, in order to have more migrant workers get benefit, legal education for the public and further work still have a long way to go.




 (Project Sponser: The United Nations Democracy Fund)