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From Aboluowang:

而本周一起，就有富士康集团旗下位于佛山市禅城区的普立华科技有限公司发生工潮，据现场视频可见数千工人高喊抗议低薪，要求公平待遇的口号游行到厂区大门，高喊：“反对不平等待遇！”视频可见厂门铁栅紧闭，外面有一排排全副武装的防暴警察。一名自称是公安局禅城公安分局副局长向工人们喊话：“你们现在的行为已经是一种示威游行的方式，所以不是我们剥夺你们的权利，而是你们行为违法，公安机关必须制止，如果酿成更大事件，我敢保证，后面起头的人都要承担责任！”

公安发言人还称，目前处于亚运敏感时期，希望工人以民族国家利益为重，如果工人坚持要上街游行，公安必定采取行动，也会事后追究：“在这么敏感的时候，我们国家正在搞亚运，这个关系到我们国家声誉的事。如果有人在这个时候闹事的话，是要负责任的，而你们跟在后面也是没有好后果的。希望大家以国家民族的利益为重，谁带头我们保留追究法律责任的权利。”“希望大家冷静，如果你们一定要出厂游行，公安机关将采取果断坚决的措施。”

据工人网上发贴反映，近期该厂提出薪酬计划，底薪标准1000元，通过考核合格的另加400元，对比同一集团下富士康深圳厂区的工人基本工资已经达到1900元，工人认为自己的工资太低而且不公平。

管辖该厂的禅城高新派出所一名警员周五称工潮已经平息，但当记者问到详情以及是否有工人被捕时，他则拒绝回答：“普立华那个现在没什么了。（什么时候结束的？）这个我们没什么好告诉你的。（没有工人被捕吧？）不知道哦！”

本台记者周五分别致电该厂以及禅城区劳动保障部门，电话都无人接听。而致电富士康集团总公司询问普立华工潮结束了没 有，工作人员称不清楚。

From China Labour Bulletin:

"Several thousand workers at a Foxconn affiliate in Foshan staged a strike on Monday 15 November.

According to the Workers’ Forum (工人论坛) network, the primary cause of the protest at Foxconn Premier Image Technology was the dissatisfaction of skilled workers over a planned pay rise, which would see the basic pay of both production line workers and skilled workers increase to 1,400 yuan a month.

Management was forcing workers to sign the new contract, the report said.

Some reports claimed up to 7,000 of the 20,000 employees at the plant took part in the work stoppage on Monday morning. A photograph on the Workers’ Forum showed the boss of Premier Image Technology with a megaphone exhorting employees to return to work. Workers said they had been threatened with dismissal if they did not abandon the strike action.

Although several reports of the strike were posted on the Internet by citizen journalists this week, the mainstream media in China has largely ignored the action."