Around 1,000 workers took to the streets in protest on April 18, after their employer, a factory in southern China’s Guangdong Province, was unable to continue paying them. As the Shawan Dian Ji Electrical Factory in the Longgang District of Shenzhen City declared bankruptcy, its employees’ wages went into default, and the workers resorted to street demonstrations.
Riot police soon arrived by the hundreds, and lined up around a nearby overpass to form a wall blocking the protesters. A number of policemen from other departments also came as reinforcement. The confrontation between the two sides lasted for three hours, and many demonstrators were injured or arrested.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/20699-chinese-workers-protest-over-unpaid-wages/
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