Mon, 04/16/2012 - 07:01 — LabourWorld
April 12, 2010
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2010/04/12/11875-chinese-employees-angry-about-lack-of-benefits-from-philips
More than ten people, all of whom were reported to be former employees of Philips, gathered outside Philips' Beijing office last week to demand that the company pay full social insurance contributions.
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 16:59 — LabourWorld
Anger rise after BYD’s harsh layoff
26-9-2011
About 300 retrenched BYD employees have signed up, and elected representatives, and hire a lawyer to defend their rights. Today some protesters were beaten by the security guards, and got hurt. The workers, escorted by colleagues were sent to hospital. The actual situation is still need to be confirmed. Some were stuck on the ground and could not move. They were then carried away by ambulance.
BYD Sales employees protested against BYD’s harsh layoffs and demand compensation.
According to news from weibo, around fifty laid off BYD sales workers openly protested in front of BYD’s office building in PingShan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen. They blamed that BYD for forcing them to quit their job by shifting them to work in other unrelated work positions in other division. The protesters were violently bitten up by a group of security guards and their banners were seized. In the conflict, some workers were injured and sent to hospital.