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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.thestar.com/news/world/china/article/820395--labour-strife-rolls-across-china

[quote]Nearly 5,500 walked off their jobs at the Pingdingshan Cotton Textile Co. here recently, demanding better pay and working conditions.

By anyone’s measure they had cause: most work for 65 cents per hour.

Suddenly, strikes are surging across China as poorly paid workers — the engine of China’s economic miracle — are demanding a bigger share of the enormous wealth the country is earning from its booming export-driven economy.

The strikes — [b]many not reported inside China on orders from the central government [/b]— threaten to cripple an economy that has enjoyed double-digit growth for years.

The government wants to keep a lid on them.[/quote]

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[quote]Last week much of the country’s attention focused on a strike at a Japanese-owned Honda factory in southern China — for which Chinese authorities allowed rare and open reporting. Workers there won a 24 per cent pay hike.

Authorities also allowed reporting on the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn electronic assembly plant, where a scourge of suicides by workers corralled in regimented factories rocked the nation.

Foxconn responded with a 30 per cent wage increase – and announced a further 70 per cent Monday.

[b]But few in China heard about the clash in Pingdingshan — [/b]or more than 15 other strikes that spilled into the streets of China in May.

[b]While it was fine for Chinese media to report on strikes at large, foreign-owned factories — the government suppressed news about worker actions at other, Chinese-owned and operated plants. It didn’t want the contagion to spread to other pools of cheap labour across China. [/b]

And few are as cheap as those in Pingdingshan.[/quote]

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