Posted on 05/06/2025 7:00:17 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Protests from furious factory workers in China demanding back pay are spreading across the country after President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports began impacting the communist nation’s economy.
Unrest has been reported across the country as workers have taken to the streets protesting unpaid wages and challenging unfair dismissals following the closures of factories squeezed by US tariffs, according to Radio Free Asia.
Chinese industry leaders, meanwhile, are “extremely anxious” about the steep duties, with many telling factories and suppliers to halt or delay supplies, Wang Xin, head of an industry group representing more than 2,000 Chinese merchants told the Financial Times.
“It’s not easy at the moment,” a 26-year-old toy factory worker told the FT. His employer, in the Chinese city of Zhejiang, mostly sells to the US, and management recently forced workers to take two weeks off unpaid in the face of the tariffs.
Elsewhere, a sporting goods factory in southern Hunan province also shut without warning last month, offering no compensation or social security benefits, leading hundreds of workers to go on strike, the outlet said.
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So much for Communists being the party of the workers.
Most of them have money tucked under their mattress too.
It’s only the poorest workers would dare to protest
They could kill all the protesters but then who will work the mines?
They could kill all the protesters but then who will work the mines?
They’re saying they have 1.4 billion people. It’s probably at 1.1 now. They’ve been losing population for decades due to 1 child policy.
The tariffs are probably not affecting their markets yet, but in a totalitarian society, the perception is everything. They have to maintain the illusion of control, and when it appears that don’t have it, all hell can break loose. Wishful thinking perhaps, but that is how color revolutions are started by the CIA.
So the tariffs Trump just put into place caused the workers not to be paid for MONTHS before the fact. Yeah, right.
When a company isn’t making payroll, it either lacks a viable business model, lacks competent financial management, or the operators have looted the place. My guess is that this situation is a three-fer. The cheated employees better enjoy their riot, because that’s all they are going to get.
The tariffs are not affecting their pay. If they’re not getting back pay, that’s on whoever pays them. My understanding is that this has been an issue from before Trump implemented the tariffs.
i child ended in 2015...2 ended in 2021....it’s no limit now.
A huge number of their youth isn’t participating in the Chicoms work til you die.
They see they can never get ahead.
So they are Lying flat and a new trend is rat people.
They only do enough to eat.
The videos are very informative about this on YouTube.
How much it’s actually going on, not sure. But it’s the only way they can protest without being arrested.
Plus millions more can’t do anything, because their social credit scores are too low due to debt.
That’s creepy dude
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