#workerprotests — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #workerprotests, aggregated by home.social.
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China's Economy Faces Ripples From Iran Conflict
China's toy makers face higher costs due to the Iran conflict. Thousands of workers protested in southern China over job losses.
#ChinaEconomy, #IranConflict, #ToyIndustry, #WorkerProtests, #GlobalTrade
https://newsletter.tf/china-toy-factory-costs-iran-conflict-protests/
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China's toy industry is struggling with rising plastic prices because of the Iran conflict. This is worse than last year.
#ChinaEconomy, #IranConflict, #ToyIndustry, #WorkerProtests, #GlobalTrade
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CW: China (labour) protests
While there was rightly no lack of coverage of the brave democracy protests in Hong Kong, for example, I feel like not enough is written about just how many strikes and #WorkerProtests there are in #China.
Back in 2015, a book review in #AgainstTheCurrent pointed out that "strikes and labor protests in China more than doubled to 1,379": https://againstthecurrent.org/atc178/p4504/