A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 days ago

    The lesson for the CEO of that company probably was that his workers are paid enough to buy matches and that needs correcting immediately.

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    13 days ago

    Uh oh, the factory fire stories are slipping through the Great Firewall. Xinnie the Poo would be so mad!

    This is becoming a trend with workers all over China not getting paid for months on end.

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    12 days ago

    I mean… Kinda based if you ignore the fact that he endangered the lives of his coworkers.