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From CLB:

5 June 2010: In the latest of a long-running series of protests, laid-off workers from the Tieshu Textile Group in Suizhou, Hubei, blocked the streets demanding redress for unresolved issues related to severance pay and pensions dating back to 2002 when the SOE declared bankruptcy. Since that date, the unemployed workers had petitioned, blocked streets, and staged numerous sit-ins, the largest protest coming on 8 February 2004, when more than 1,000 people blocked a railway.