Baoying Shoe Factory Workers Protest in Guangzhou

• Date: Aug 25 2005 Time: 19:18
• Description:
  From CLB: In the afternoon of August 25, 2005, nearly 600 workers from the Baoying Shoe Factory in Guangzhou blocked the streets in a protest over wages in arrears. The factory had not paid any wages since April of that year. The workers had sought out the factory director on several occasions to ask for their wages, but were told that “the factory is going through a difficult period, and we hope the workers can stand together with the factory in getting through it.” By August, the factory director had disappeared and, for the workers, even getting enough food had become a problem.