From Internet Sources
China’s factory workers have few rights. Thousands of factory workers in southern China fought running battles with factory guards. The clashes at the Nanxuan Wool Textile Factory in Guandong province lasted three days and were said by local officials to be the worst examples of labour unrest in recent years. There had been many labour protests and strikes all across China in recent years. The plant manager, Wang Law, told the Associated Press that there were 63 people injured including about a dozen guards.
Pictures carried by the local newspaper the Tangcheng Evening News showed blood trails all around the factory compound.
The official People’s Daily said that the guards beat the workers, causing 8,000 of the 15,000 workers to go on strike at this Hong Kong privately owned Naxuan Industrial Co. Ltd. After this attack, the security guards received other company reinforcements who proceeded to beat the workers with steel pipes. The workers then fought back and set fire to a car and smashed windows.
The local police came then to stop this struggle, but the private security guards locked the gates to the police and beat the police back until the riot police arrived.
A Hong Kong rights group told the BBC News Online that violence at foreign-owned factories was common as they employ mainly rural teenagers whose naivety they exploit and they do not allow any trade union rights to be set up or defended. The foreign owned factories and large enterprises all over China have the worst conditions, because the young migrant workers, who have often traveled thousands of kilometers, are inexperienced and psychologically isolated.
The state owned enterprises hire only the city dwellers and have better conditions, but they too are not have union safeguards.
These outside the cities young people are forced to live in the factory compounds, they are not allowed to form a union… and if take up any problem with their manager, they are fired.
And if any private security guard is not happy with a worker, he will stop them and beat them without any possibility of being charged.
COMMENT:
There are millions unemployed in China and if the above facts are the truth, which we feel they are, it certainly is not a socialist system in China at all. Chinese cheap and exploited labour in actual fact supports capitalism.
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