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  • China - Sharp Drop in Overseas Orders Causes Worker Unrest and Mass Strikes

    China refused to economically help the Eurozone so orders have plummeted.

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    Sharp drop in overseas orders for China factory wage labor conflicts and strikes frequent
    Huge network compiled Hsu Chia-hua Hang YORK 2011-11-24 14:00


    Since last year, Japanese car factory workers launched a series of strike action, China is facing the most serious wave of labor unrest, because the decline in export orders, forcing factories cut workers salary.

    Two major export in southern Guangdong Province, Shenzhen and Dongguan city ─ more than 10,000 workers in a strike last week, the latest wave of protests in Taiwan on Tuesday in Shenzhen factory started the computer.

    "China Labour Bulletin" (China Labour Bulletin) spokesman Geoffrey Crothall said: "Last week, the labor unrest warming, it may be since last summer, the most obvious one labor unrest."

    Debt crisis in Europe and the United States because of the weak recovery in the global economic stress, when China took place in the labor strike. Wednesday China's manufacturing index fell to March 2009 down are the lowest point, the economic data is more worried about the state of China's economic growth.

    Guangdong Deputy Governor said last week that exports of Guangdong Province on October 9 percent reduction. Provincial leadership is also against the farmers because the land was confiscated and widespread protests launched on Monday, Guangdong Province, Wu Kan village of nearly 5,000 villagers took to the streets.

    As the sharp drop in overseas orders, factories canceled overtime, but workers need to rely on overtime pay subsidies. According to CLB, the average basic monthly salary of workers in the electronics industry approximately 1500 yuan (236 dollars), but after upgrading to 2500 overtime dollars. Crothall: "If there is no overtime, basic pay alone is not enough simply to live."

    Last week in Dongguan Pou Chen factories (Nike and Adidas to supply Taiwanese shoe factory) protests broke out on a larger scale, approximately 7,000 workers protest against employers cut overtime, and the deployment of some workers to factories in Mainland China and Vietnam factory resolution, because the lower wages in those places.

    One of the workers to the media, said: "We were forced back to the factory to work, but we are only willing to sit there, no one is willing to operate the machines." He stood condemned the local government employers point of view, in the coordination process, quite a tough attitude.

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