{"id":77930,"date":"2010-06-10T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=77930"},"modified":"2010-06-10T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:34:28","slug":"labor-disputes-spread-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/06\/labor-disputes-spread-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Disputes Spread in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/11\/business\/global\/11strike.html?src=busln\"> New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere were fresh reports on Thursday of strikes at foreign-owned factories in at least five other cities. But all of these strikes appeared to have ended quickly as managers, faced with an acute labor shortage, sought to address workers\u2019 demands.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese-owned companies tend not to disclose when strikes have occurred, and it is not clear how many strikes have taken place in recent days at these businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The demands of striking workers have been overwhelmingly economic, mainly for sharp increases in pay. But while there has been no sign of any political demands, the work stoppages have potential political overtones as well. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/06\/honda-set-to-resume-china-car-output-labour-unrest-lingers\/\">ongoing strikes <\/a>at Honda parts factories via CDT. Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/honda\">Honda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/strikes\">strikes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/labor-unrest\">labor unrest<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times: There were fresh reports on Thursday of strikes at foreign-owned factories in at least five other cities. But all of these strikes appeared to have ended quickly as managers, faced with an acute labor shortage, sought to address workers\u2019 demands. Chinese-owned companies tend not to disclose when strikes have occurred, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[2,100,5,1051],"tags":[5213,480],"class_list":["post-77930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-society","category-top-article","tag-honda","tag-labor-unrest","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Labor Disputes Spread in China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/06\/labor-disputes-spread-in-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Labor Disputes Spread in China\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York Times: There were fresh reports on Thursday of strikes at foreign-owned factories in at least five other cities. 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