Siemens Corporation Workers Protest in Beijing

• Date: Jun 29 2005 Time: 22:12
• Description:
  From CLB: On the afternoon of June 29, 2005, more than 20 workers at the Beijing headquarters of the Siemens Corporation unfurled a banner in front of the company gates protesting layoffs of workers and unfair treatment of Chinese employees. According to media reports, this was the first time that Chinese employees had openly protested at a transnational company operating in China. The causes of this protest included a more than ten-fold wage gap between German and local employees working in the same positions and at the same productivity level.