RedStarOverChina
17th August 2009, 16:45
HONG KONG — A Chinese provincial government halted the privatization of a state-owned steel mill on Sunday, apparently capitulating to thousands of workers who protested last week and took an official as hostage.
The protests, in Henan Province in central China, were the latest sign of increasing labor activism in China’s steel industry, the world’s largest and a cornerstone of China’s construction-dependent economy. Three weeks earlier, rioting workers beat to death an executive who had been overseeing the sale of another state-owned steel company, Tonghua Iron and Steel, in northeast China’s Jilin Province, to a private business.
The privatization of Tonghua was immediately postponed after that death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/global/17yuan.html
See, killing your class enemy pays.
On the other hand, cutting your own fingers in protest could only attract pity.
The protests, in Henan Province in central China, were the latest sign of increasing labor activism in China’s steel industry, the world’s largest and a cornerstone of China’s construction-dependent economy. Three weeks earlier, rioting workers beat to death an executive who had been overseeing the sale of another state-owned steel company, Tonghua Iron and Steel, in northeast China’s Jilin Province, to a private business.
The privatization of Tonghua was immediately postponed after that death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/global/17yuan.html
See, killing your class enemy pays.
On the other hand, cutting your own fingers in protest could only attract pity.