Want China Times, Xinhua
2014-04-18
A massive strike over a social benefits dispute entered a fifth day on Friday at a footwear factory in south China's Guangdong province.
Workers at Yue Yuen strike over social insurance and housing funds benefits, Apr. 14. (Photo/CNS) |
A massive strike over a social benefits dispute entered a fifth day on Friday at a footwear factory in south China's Guangdong province.
Thousands
of workers at Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings), a Dongguan-based footwear maker
for major brands including Nike, Adidas and Timberland, began storming out of
the main plant and walking along a nearby arterial road around 8:50am.
Police
rushed to the front of the parade, urging them to leave and return to the
plant. Dozens of workers were then taken away by police, but no clashes broke
out nor were any people injured.
Police have
blocked some road section, and most of the workers have returned to the
premises of the factory, where there is a staff of about 45,000.
Production
at the plant remains halted.
The
protests began on April 5, when a few hundred workers from the plant took to
the streets demanding that their social insurance and housing funds be fully
paid.
After
failed negotiations with management, more workers have joined what has become a
massive strike since Monday.
On
Thursday, the factory management promised to catch up on all the social
benefits in arrears, but the workers have remained skeptical and refused to
return to work.
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