Thousands Of China Steel Workers Clash With Police

Peacenik takes note of stories like this one about the Chinese factory executive being beaten to death. In France the modus operandi was to kidnap executives. Peacenik is against violence. Will this type of violence come to North America? Or has the North American worker been so brainwashed that they are unable to act? 30 years of brainwashing will do that to you. So laid off North American auto workers sit around complaining about union workers banking sick days, rather than complain about multimillion dollar bonuses being paid to corporate executives...with taxpayer money. Universal health care? CPP? Old age pensions? Fair wages? Environmental protections? That stuff is for commies.

AGAINST TAKEOVER DEAL

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Some 30,000 disgruntled Chinese steel workers clashed with riot police in protest over a takeover deal, resulting in the death of an executive from another steel company, a human rights group said.

News that Beijing-based Jianlong Steel Holding Company would buy a majority stake in state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel Group triggered Friday's protest, which also led to 100 people being injured, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said on its website.

Discontent over inequality and unemployment amid the economic downturn has triggered social frustration in China, with many cases of riots by angry citizens. Friday's clash happened in the northeast province of Jilin.

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