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Shoe Factory Strikes Spread To Jiangxi (Updated)

Jonathan Kaiman at The Guardian reports that the ongoing Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) Ltd.’s shoe factory strikes in Guangdong have spread to thousands of workers protesting “unfair pay and benefits” at another factory in neighboring Jiangxi: About 2,000 workers clocked in on Monday, but did not work, at the Yue Yuen factory complex in Jiangxi province, southern China, joining at least 10,000 employees at another Yue Yuen factory complex in Dongguan,