China Factory Resolution Reached, US Businessman Released

[DeSwiss]

NTDTV·Published on Jun 28, 2013

Chinese factory employees and the U.S. executive, previously held captive, reach a resolution to a row over pay.

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A U.S. executive and his Chinese workers who held him captive for six days reached a resolution to a row about pay on Thursday. President of Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, Chip Starnes, was held captive by about 100 of his own workers on the outskirts of Beijing since June 21. General Manager for Specialty Medical Supplies, Xing Shuang, says Starnes has left the factory.

{Xing Shuang, General Manager}:
"My boss Chip is exhausted after two harsh days and has gone back to a hotel." The workers' demands followed rumors that the entire plant was being closed after the company's plastic injection molding division moved to India to lower production costs.

After rounds of negotiations between Starnes and the workers as well as mediation efforts from the local labor administration the stand-off was resolved. A written agreement between the two sides was signed early Thursday morning.

The six-day-old stand-off in the suburb of Huairou, not far from sections of the Great Wall, has highlighted one of the lesser known risks of doing business in China. The level of trust between workers and managers is low and faith in the legal system is weak. Consultants and lawyers say angry employees holding employers captive is common in China, often arising out of a mix of mistrust, mismanagement and desperation.

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- I hope the employees of companies recently taken over by Bain Capital are taking notes....

[iamthebandfanman]

1. And thats how its done.

I hope EVERYONE is taking notes.

You know, this is how our labor movement used to do it in its younger days.

It works. Its effective.

Nobody likes to promote any kind of .. I wont say violence because what they did do in this case wasn't really violent.. but rather force..
but sometimes its necessary.

sometimes sitting on the ground and chanting isn't enough to invoke change..

opening a US history book would teach you that.
weve been lucky here in the states to have had some peaceful resolutions..
but lets think about the bulk of drastic changes that have happened here..

all included some time of force or violence.

again, Id never advocate hurting another living person.. but sometimes you have to be willing to at least get hurt yourself for your cause.
just saying.

[fasttense]

2. Moving out of China to India for cheaper labor??????

This is how capitalism works. The rich capitalist holds countries hostage to cheap, cheap labor. Gives us cheap cheap labor or your people will lose their jobs.

Unions in the US have to start ignoring all the anti-union laws and start fighting back like real unions.