Nicewell Ceramics Workers Protest in Panyu, Guangdong

• Date: Nov 9 2007 Time: 22:45
• Description:
  From CLB: Several hundred workers. Protest over wage arrears after company closes and boss absconds. Roadblock. Police issue warning, government promises to pay missing wages and arrange new employment. Also from the same report: On 9 November 2007, several hundred workers at Nicewell Ceramics’ Guangzhou plant blocked roads near local government buildings to protest wage arrears of more than two million yuan. Two days earlier, the chairman of the Taiwan-based parent company had informed the city government that he had been forced by “gangsters” to flee the idled plant.