Fri, Dec 17, 2004 - Page 11 News List

Factory workers in China protest low wages, abuses

UNIONS DEMANDED Some 12,000 workers at a factory in Shenzhen that supplies the US retail giant Wal-Mart have walked off the job, avoiding the ban on public demonstrations

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , SHENZHEN, CHINA

"The migrant workers have learned to protest with their feet, they are more capable of negotiating, and they can choose not to work," said Liu Kaiming, who studies conditions of migrant workers in Guangdong Province.

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