{"id":193709,"date":"2016-05-06T17:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=193709"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T03:32:18","slug":"riot-police-deployed-teachers-stage-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2016\/05\/riot-police-deployed-teachers-stage-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot Police Deployed as Hunan Teachers Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police after thousands of teachers converged on government buildings this week,<\/a><\/strong> joining a demonstration that began on Tuesday\u00a0over unpaid wages and benefits.<\/p>\n Videos and photographs circulated online showed uniformed police officers with riot shields stationed in front the county government headquarters.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want a life\u201d, \u201cwe want our salaries,\u201d \u201cwe want to defend our rights\u201d, teachers shouted or demanded on banners, a video of the protest showed.<\/p>\n Scuffles broke out between police and protesters, but no one was injured, the report said.<\/p>\n Many teachers travelled from towns and villages around Hengyang county to attend the protest, according to the article.<\/p>\n A protestor claimed staff had been docked wages and social insurance contributions for over 20 years, while some had also been overcharged for other administration fees. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Protest monitor Wickedonna wrote that at least ten participating teachers had been taken into custody<\/a>\u00a0as of Wednesday. Photos detailing the ongoing protests are available on Sina<\/a> as well as Wickedonna’s Blogspot<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> pages.<\/span><\/p>\n 5\u67083\u65e5\uff0c\u6e56\u5357\u7701\u8861\u9633\u5e02\u8861\u9633\u53bf\u4e0a\u5343\u4e2d\u5c0f\u5b66\u6559\u5e08\u5230\u53bf\u653f\u5e9c\u96c6\u4f1a\uff0c\u6297\u8bae\u653f\u5e9c\u62d6\u6b20\u5de5\u8d44\u3002\uff3b\u8be6\uff1ahttps:\/\/t.co\/DkcrP4EXxB<\/a>\uff3d pic.twitter.com\/98qQH6oymV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u975e\u65b0\u805e (@wickedonnaa) May 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The ongoing demonstration resembles a similar mass teacher protest that took place in Heilongjiang in 2014, where educators across the province went on\u00a0strike in response to\u00a0unfulfilled government promises<\/a> to increase wages and related benefits. Meanwhile\u00a0general labor unrest is growing across the country as China’s economy continues to slow<\/a>. The government has responded to worker demonstrations with a heavy hand by\u00a0publicly shaming and jailing protestors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police after thousands of teachers converged on government buildings this week, joining a demonstration that began on Tuesday\u00a0over unpaid wages and benefits. Videos and photographs circulated online showed uniformed police officers with riot shields stationed in front the county government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":193719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,34,14744,14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[5152,227,5958,7535,480,2326,1472,3807,2829],"class_list":["post-193709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-human-rights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-collective-action","tag-education","tag-hunan","tag-labor-disputes","tag-labor-unrest","tag-mass-protests","tag-protests-control","tag-teachers","tag-wages","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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