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From CLW:

8000 workers from Foster Electric Company’s Nanning Factory in Guangxi Province went on strike. The Foster Electric Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company, the Foster Group. Workers walked off the job to protest managers retaining their year-end bonuses while cancelling the workers’ bonuses. The workers hoped to win fair and reasonable treatment though the strike.

Police blockaded the main entrance of the factory to prevent the workers from marching into the streets to demonstrate. Since the majority of the workers are female, the strike was not met with the type of violent force that police usually use to break up these types of demonstrations.

Later on January 16th, the management decided to compromise and announced it would provide an annual bonus of 250 RMB to all workers. The announcement also stated that all workers should return to work the next day, January 17th. It went on to threaten anyone who continued to protest with immediate loss of their jobs.

According to Radio Free Asia, the workers went back to work on the 17th. However, some workers thought their treatment was still unfair, since they worked 10 hours a day and only got 250 RMB at the end of the year while some managers got more than 10,000 RMB. In addition, the factory is very stingy with its Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) vacation days, only giving workers the legally mandated 7 days off. Therefore, it was impossible for a lot of migrant workers to go back to their home regions to be with their families during the most important holiday of the year.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, the wave of strikes that have swept China continues unabated. On January 13th, 2000 workers from Changhe Auto Factory in Jiangxi Province went on strike because the factory decided to sell the “Changhe” brand, which may result in some or all of them being laid off. The demonstration is still ongoing. The incident was followed by a strike initiated by 4000 workers from Sanyo Electric Company’s Shekou Factory on January 14th because the company was sold, but the workers did not get any compensation at the end of their work year.

From November 2011 on, the world has seen a wave of strikes sweep across China. Executive Director of China Labor Watch Li Qiang said Chinese workers are more aware of their rights and how they can work together to protect them than they have been in the past. It has been long in coming, but the era of Chinese workers’ rights may be close at hand.

From lc.cf8.com.cn:

　　广西南宁日资丰达机电公司，周一爆发8000工人大罢工，抗议年终奖只发给管理阶层，忽视了基层员工，加上家在外省市的远地员工认为，过年假期7天太短，只能在车上过年，因而爆发不满，政府出动上千警察到场封锁大门戒备。

　　日本丰达集团（FOSTER lc.cf8.com.cn） 旗下位于广西南宁的丰达电机公司，16号爆发8000工人集体罢工事件，工厂的车间、食堂、厂区空地，都可见到大批身穿粉蓝工作服的女工聚集，甚至列队走向工厂大门

　　16号当天，政府出动穿着黑色制服头戴钢盔的武警，及身穿迷彩服的治安队等上千人到场戒备，并封锁工厂大门防止工人上街游行。辖区高新分局的警察，坦承因为罢工而出警一事。

From Kangde'er Jiangjun:

一场风一场梦： 2012年1月16日，广西南宁日资丰达机电公司八千人大吧工。起因是由于年终奖与往年不同，只发给管理阶层，引起基层员工不满，府出动上千警察、治安队和武警在现场戒备，并封锁工厂大门，防止工人上街YOU行

From Mayan780321.blog.163.com:

2012年1月16日，广西南宁日资丰达机电公司，上午二厂开始罢工，下午一厂响应，八千员工集体罢工。

罢工起因是由于年终奖与往年不同，只发给管理阶层，引起基层员工不满，加上春节假期太短只有7天，年初7就要开工，远地方的工人只能在车上过年。

政府出动上千警察、治安队和武警在现场戒备，并封锁工厂大门，防止工人上街游行。

丰达电机(南宁)有限公司，成立于2007年11月，是日本丰达集团(FOSTER)旗下之独资企业，主要生产扬声器及MP3耳机等发音产品，现在籍员工8000人。