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More than ten thousand workers stage strike at massive Dongguan shoe factory

At least 10,000 workers at shoe-making factories owned by Yue Yuen Industrial in Dongguan took to the streets Monday 14 April 2014, protesting the company’s failure to pay its 70,000 employees their full social security and housing fund contributions.

Workers swamped the basketball courts inside the dormitory area holding banners that read: “Pay back the social security and public housing fund! Shame on Yue Yuen’s illegal activities!”

As the peaceful demonstration wound down around 5.30 pm., hundreds of riot police armed with batons reportedly rushed the crowd and grabbed about ten of those who had held banners and threw them into a police van parked nearby.Two of the arrested were women. Four workers were beaten and hospitalized.

The company, which had vowed to provide a solution to the dispute which first broke out on 5 April when hundreds of workers blocked a local bridge, announced on Monday that it would only agree to sign new contracts with all its employees as of 1 May and refused to pay the social security contributions and public housing fund payments in arrears.

“The company hasn’t paid us since 2006, today’s announcement shows that they knew all along and don’t want to pay a penny!” said a mid-level manager named Xue. “Some of my colleagues estimate that Yue Yuen owes the workers as much as one billion yuan over the years.”

“Someone set up a QQ group before the 5 April event and thousands joined,” said Xue. “But they were quickly ‘shut-up’ and the initial group was scrapped. Now we have four new online groups, and the number of those want to join is growing.”

According to former long-time employee, Mr Zhu, the workers are preparing to stage a full-scale strike Tuesday morning. He said: “Yue Yuen has been shifting production from Dongguan to those inland provinces as well as Vietnam and Indonesia for several years, but those workers who devoted their best years to the factories are not going to go quietly.”

15 aprile 2014

Cina, sciopero in fabbrica di scarpe

Migliaia di lavoratori chiedono migliori condizioni di lavoro. Preoccupati per la paralisi della produzione grandi marchi come Nike, Crocs, Adidas, Reebok, Asics, New Balance, Puma e Timberland

– Migliaia di lavoratori di una delle più grande fabbriche di scarpe della Cina sono da lunedì in sciopero a Dongguan, nel sud del paese, contro le condizioni di lavoro precarie. I lavoratori della Yue Yuen (gruppo che produce scarpe per Nike, Crocs, Adidas, Reebok, Asics, New Balance, Puma, Timberland) erano già scesi in piazza e ora, dopo che sono stati bloccati i negoziati con i vertici dell’azienda, hanno ripreso con più vigore le proteste.

Cina, sciopero in fabbrica di scarpe

Allarmate le grandi aziende clienti, che temono di non poter sopperire alle richieste dei compratori finali. Una delle richieste disattese, oltre alle condizioni di lavoro migliori, è il pagamento delle assicurazioni e previdenza sociale, oltre che degli aiuti sull’immobiliare.

I lavoratori, infatti, sono per la maggior parte immigrati da altre province e in base alla legge cinese non possono portare nell’altra provincia la loro assicurazione sociale statale co-pagata dai lavoratori e dall’azienda, a meno che non sia pagata una supplementare.

Ma l’azienda non ne vuole sapere di aiutare i lavoratori su questo punto e da qui le proteste delle migliaia di dipendenti, circa 60mila, di questi giorni, che vanno a sommarsi a quelle di tanti altri operai sparsi nel paese per questioni legate alle condizioni di lavoro e ai contratti.

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http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/economia/2014/notizia/cina-sciopero-in-fabbrica-di-scarpe_2039341.shtml

 

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