cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30901392
A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.
OP, you should know that Radio Free Asia is American propaganda in the most literal sense. Although this is bad propaganda, since it just makes Chinese workers look cool af
I know lol. This is like when the CIA put out that one recruitment video aimed at Chinese citizens a few weeks ago – the video was supposed to lament the terrible conditions of Chinese workers, but inadvertently turned out as a brutal critique of American capitalism
over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111)
lol, “just”
Wage theft is wage theft, the amount doesn’t matter. Fuck you, pay me.
For the factory owner this amount certainly is negligible or almost nothing. But I’m sure for the worker it must be existential. Just for perspectives, do you think if someone gets caught stealing groceries for that amount - would the shop owner say “oh, never mind it’s only 800 Yuan”
This
RFA
Police, however, said the claim that “800 yuan in wages were owed” was false, and that the company was in the process of approving payment of 5,370 yuan in wages. It blamed the factory fire on the arsonist’s suicidal thoughts, and said police would deal strictly with those spreading rumors.
Lol RFA, always “reliable”.
Reminds me of this incident in India.
There was also a more recent victory of Samsung workers against the company in Tamil Nadu, just a few weeks ago I think
