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China Workers Strike at Lingerie, IBM Parts Factories Demanding More Pay
By Bloomberg News - Nov 24, 2011 1:27 AM ET
Thousands of workers in southern China went on strike in the last week to demand higher pay and better treatment, disrupting work at companies including one that supplies equipment to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
In Shenzhen, 1,000 workers went on strike Nov. 22 at a factory owned by a Taiwanese computer-parts maker after the company required staff to work overtime from 6 p.m. to midnight, New York-based China Labor Watch said in a statement. A day earlier, workers at a Shenzhen factory owned by lingerie-maker Top Form International Ltd. (333) struck over wages and ?unachievable? production quotas, the group reported. Last week, 7,000 workers at a shoe factory struck in Dongguan, the China Labor Bulletin reported.
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Crothall said workers in the coastal provinces are quicker to strike now because inflation exacerbates any cuts to their pay and because of concern that their employers will relocate abroad or to inland areas of China.
Food prices in October rose 11.9 percent from a year ago, China?s National Bureau of Statistics reported on Nov. 9.
?They are just preparing for the worst,? Crothall said. ?There is a general level of uncertainty about what is going to happen in the future.?
By Bloomberg News - Nov 24, 2011 1:27 AM ET
Thousands of workers in southern China went on strike in the last week to demand higher pay and better treatment, disrupting work at companies including one that supplies equipment to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
In Shenzhen, 1,000 workers went on strike Nov. 22 at a factory owned by a Taiwanese computer-parts maker after the company required staff to work overtime from 6 p.m. to midnight, New York-based China Labor Watch said in a statement. A day earlier, workers at a Shenzhen factory owned by lingerie-maker Top Form International Ltd. (333) struck over wages and ?unachievable? production quotas, the group reported. Last week, 7,000 workers at a shoe factory struck in Dongguan, the China Labor Bulletin reported.
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Crothall said workers in the coastal provinces are quicker to strike now because inflation exacerbates any cuts to their pay and because of concern that their employers will relocate abroad or to inland areas of China.
Food prices in October rose 11.9 percent from a year ago, China?s National Bureau of Statistics reported on Nov. 9.
?They are just preparing for the worst,? Crothall said. ?There is a general level of uncertainty about what is going to happen in the future.?
