As reported last week, the strike that started earlier this month at Dongguan's largest shoe factory, Yue Yuen, has had far reaching effects. Up to 60,000 workers were involved in co-ordinated strike actions and they had to resist increased repression, while individual worker activists have been targeted. The strike has highlighted the power of the Chinese working class within the global economy, scaring capitalist investors. A number of solidarity events around the world were held (see here and here). While some strikers have been pressured to go back to work, many are still defiant. Only through the creation of independent and genuine trade unions will Chinese workers be able to safeguard their rights.
As reported last week, the strike that started earlier this month at Dongguan's largest shoe factory, Yue Yuen, has had far reaching effects. Up to 60,000 workers were involved in co-ordinated strike actions and they had to resist increased repression, while individual worker activists have been targeted. The strike has highlighted the power of the Chinese working class within the global economy, scaring capitalist investors. A number of solidarity events around the world were held (see here and here). While some strikers have been pressured to go back to work, many are still defiant. Only through the creation of independent and genuine trade unions will Chinese workers be able to safeguard their rights.
