Teachers Protest in Kunming, Yunnan

• Date: May 10 2006 Time: 19:05
• Description:
  From CLB: On May 10, 2006, more than 700 retired teachers from kindergartens and vocational schools, attached to what were originally SOEs in Yunnan Province, gathered to stage a sit-in at the front gate of the provincial government office. They demanded payment of benefits equal to those of elementary and secondary teachers, as stipulated in the Teachers Law of the People’s Republic of China and the Notice Regarding the Problem of Appropriately Managing Benefits for Retired Teachers from Elementary and Middle Schools Attached to State-Owned Enterprises, issued by the General Office of the State Council on January 20, 2004. Many of the retired teachers had been fighting for their rights since the end of 2004.