Apple Goes On A Hiring Spree In China

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32. They are doing plenty of "demanding".

Chinese workers are now launching too many strikes and protests for authorities to suppress, according to a union dissident visiting Australia.

Chinese dissident Han Dongfang, who was expelled from the country 20 years ago, told the Australian Workers' Union conference on the Gold Coast the new generation of Chinese workers were better educated and aspirational than their parents and no longer willing to accept exploitation.

Han Dongfang, who founded China's first independent trade union during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, said many people may ask themselves why the Chinese government had allowed the workers' movement to develop to the point where even state-owned enterprises had to listen to their employees.

But he said there were now simply too many strikes and worker protests to suppress.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/worker-strikes-in-china-too-common-to-suppress-20130221-2es8a.html

China as an Emerging Epicenter of Global Labor Unrest

http://soc.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SilverZhang2009.pdf