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  • China - 1000s of demonstrators protest for better wages in Sichuan province - "mass injuries" reported as police respond

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    January 1, 2012

    Thousands of demonstrators blocked roads Sichuan workers conflicts with the police
    Mainland activists wave after another, Sichuan Chemical Co., Inc. (River of) thousands of workers seeking pay day before strikes and demonstrations, also trying to seize the highway at night, once the conflict confrontation with the police, pass over injuries.

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    "We want to work, we have to eat, we are to survive!" Demonstration workers complained, Sichuan-based pay has been too low, have not pay for four consecutive years, some employees monthly salary of only $ 1,000 (RMB ‧ below). Factory due to poor management, the past six months has been living on loans payroll, book remaining eighty thousand yuan in cash. Workers and complaint, the parent company of the holding group suspected of Sichuan Sichuan transfer and sale of profit-making projects and weaken Sichuan-based competitiveness.


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    Demonstrators sentiment, along the way waving homemade banners, banners and shouting slogans such as asking for a raise. Workers vowed, if it is not given a positive response, the petition to the provincial government, things blow up. Workers then went to the River of its hotels, to prevent general manager of Sichuan Party Secretary Liu Yong and Yang Cheng left, requested them and the parent company of response.

    Allowed to raise oral respite storm
    Demonstrations continued late into the night, workers tried to go into the cotton (Chengdu-Mianyang) highway Dulu demonstrations, the authorities deployed hundreds of riot police blocked at the toll station, a standoff for several hours, during the outbreak of sporadic conflict, mass injuries. SAC involved in the incident that night, requested them to send the scene of the factory verbally agreed to pay after the $ 400, and the arrangements of Sichuan billion project to be responsible, working people gradually dispersed demonstrations. But workers warned that the parent company back on again once the fight.

    Zhttp://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20120101/00178_001.html
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