The world’s sixth busiest port was blocked by striking truck drivers, demanding an increase in their wages and haulage rates. The strike was violently broken up by riot police. A very similar strike happened at the Shanghai port in 2011. Chinese workers often use social media to generate very large scale, spontaneous strikes, but without independent union organizations these mobilisations tend dissipate quickly.
The world’s sixth busiest port was blocked by striking truck drivers, demanding an increase in their wages and haulage rates. The strike was violently broken up by riot police. A very similar strike happened at the Shanghai port in 2011. Chinese workers often use social media to generate very large scale, spontaneous strikes, but without independent union organizations these mobilisations tend dissipate quickly.
