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Booming China raises workers' hopes
For laborers at the sprawling Selena shoe factory, tensions had brewed for months. The food was free but bad, and becoming worse,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with fewer meat dishes and a lot of mushy vegetables. For migrant workers manning an assembly line 11 hours each day, bad meals are a contributing factor to anger.
Shoe orders were coming thick and fast, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which gratified everyone. In the "factory from the world" - China's southern Guangdong Province, which exports from lawn furniture to baseball gloves - migrant laborers will switch factories when they do not get overtime.
Migrants work six days a week and reside in fetid rooms with 15 people in order to save money. Therefore the steady work brought anticipation one of the 20,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 workers for any big pay day.
Yet on pay day, inexplicably,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the pay didn't add up. Workers just exploded.
It requires a lot for Chinese laborers to strike,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], then riot. They know the rules. But at two shoe plants owned by Taiwan's Stella International, strikes led to each day and a half of riots, attended by beatings of workers from hired security squads. Workers trashed a cafeteria and computer room, and overturned the owner's car.
Eight migrants were arrested, went on trial recently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and today await a sentence. Last week outside the two plants where 6,000 laborers went briefly wild in April, tensions continue to be high. Only employee residents are allowed into or out the walled compound including the factory and dormitories - not really workers' friends are permitted in.
"Maybe it had been against the rules however i was sympathetic using the protesters," says a four-year Stella veteran who has seen her pay grow by just $35 per year. "We [migrants] put a great deal into this plant,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however in the end we'll get nothing. Just the pay. We're migrants plus they can replace us. They do not care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we all know that. But when we leave we have to have saved something for future years."
Greed and the Party blamed
Stella factories, by reputation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aren't considered poor offices. By Delta standards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], labor experts say, they are decent. Yet in what labor activists say was a historic defense of the Stella workers charged with "intentional destruction" of property (usually the trial is pro forma), Beijing lawyer Gao Zhisheng reversed the culprit for the riot. Mr. Gao said the "greed" from the owners was "the real reason" for that incident,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], blamed the Communist Party for standing "shoulder to shoulder" using the capitalists,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and said the root problem was the lack of workers' rights to voice their grievances.
Guangdong's economy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the engine of the Pearl River Delta, is continuing to grow at 15 to 20 percent for a long time. The blend of endless cheap labor in the countryside, a free-market ethos, and advanced power and transport infrastructure 's the reason China averages $1 billion a week in foreign direct investment. Yet as cities like Dong Guan have mushroomed to 5 million residents from 40,000,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and boast new skyscrapers and hotels and countless newly purchased cars a day, migrant wages have risen microscopically.
But a decade right into a manufacturing boom that wows the world,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Chinese workers are also maturing; and their aspirations are expanding in a fashion that implicitly challenges the cheap labor paradigm that makes up China's competitive advantage. A current labor shortage in the Pearl River Delta may itself be aided by worker unhappiness.
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