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Chinese factory worker sets fire to textile plant over 800 yuan in unpaid wages

rfa.org Chinese factory worker sets fire to textile plant over 800 yuan in unpaid wages

While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

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If the CCP's all about championing the humble worker then surely they'll approve of this guy's actions, right?
- CCP shuts down alternative unions and prevents any left wing demonstrations, it's ironic, you don't have to fall into a party line when you're not a party member yet they're being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of ~~centralised democracy~~ democratic centralism
  
  it’s ironic, you don’t have to fall into a party line when you’re not a party member yet they’re being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of centralised democracy
  It's because you just broke the rules of dictatorship ;P
- Surely they'd prefer workers to go through official channels so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages. They're not anarchists lol
  
  Official Channels
  So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣
  so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages
  I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?
  
  From the article:
  Police, however, said the claim that “800 yuan in wages were owed” was false, and that the company was in the process of approving payment of 5,370 yuan in wages. It blamed the factory fire on the arsonist’s suicidal thoughts, and said police would deal strictly with those spreading rumors.
  So the "official channels" would just tell him unpaid wages don't exist

"just 800 yuan (or US$111)"
"just"
Fuck man, I'd go ballistic over $111 of unpaid wages, and that's probably a bigger chunk of that employee's monthly wages than mine.

Guess who the Chinese government will punish now (hint: it wont be the workers)

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