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Workers Are Fighting Back as Economic Dream Fades

In the eastern province of Jiangsu, a group of auto workers and their relatives clashed with police during a protest over compensation for injuries the workers suffered as a result of an explosion at their factory last year. Xie Haitao at Caixin reports: Dozens of factory workers, many of them from outside the manufacturing city of Kunshan, and their relatives were protesting at a city government building about the way their injury payouts are being handled. More than a dozen