CHINA: strike 7000 Nike factory workers in a, Adidas, New Balance
The blog The Black Cat rioter highlights the story from a Belgian newspaper
(Belgian) More than 7 000 employees of a factory Adidas shoes, Nike and New China Southern Balance went on strike against layoffs and wage cuts and clashes with the police several injured, announced an advocacy group Human Rights.
Dozens of workers were injured on Thursday when police tried to dismantle a roadblock set up by the strikers on the main street of the town near Dongguan, in Guangdong Province, said Friday in a statement the China Labor Watch (CNW), organization specializing in the defense of human rights.
Employees of the factory Yucheng, near Huangjiang, went on strike after the dismissal last month of 18 their managers, interpreted by workers as a sign of upcoming relocation, added CNW headquartered in New York. One of the dismissed executives told China Business News that his departure was part of a proposed relocation of production in Jiangxi province to reduce costs that are higher in the vast manufacturing hub of Dongguan. The strike is the latest in a series of incidents and social movements that erupted in Guangdong, region known as the great workshop of the world which attract tens of millions of migrant workers.
bourgeois press - Le Vif (with Belga), 19/11/2011 at 11 o'clock
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