Unpaid workers beaten
By Zhang Xuanchen |
August 3, 2010, Tuesday
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LABOR union in central China Hubei Province are investigating a dispute in which 118 Hubei migrant workers were beaten by 300 people armed with sticks when they tried to obtain their unpaid wages.
The Hubei labor union has sent a team to Xi'an City, northwest China Shaanxi Province, where the workers from Hubei had been hired to build a section of railway.
More than 30 workers were injured during the attack on July 21 and were being treated for fractures in hospital, the China News Service reported yesterday.
The workers said they were dragged out of their temporary shelters by a group of unidentified people armed with wooden sticks and beaten up. Even their wives who tried to intervene were attacked.
Sun Huazhou, the manager of the company affiliated to Xi'an Railway Engineering Co which hired the workers, said he knew nothing about the beatings.
Sun said the company had sent 20,000 yuan (US$2,953) to pay the injured workers' medical costs.
The workers had been hired in April.
The Hubei labor union has sent a team to Xi'an City, northwest China Shaanxi Province, where the workers from Hubei had been hired to build a section of railway.
More than 30 workers were injured during the attack on July 21 and were being treated for fractures in hospital, the China News Service reported yesterday.
The workers said they were dragged out of their temporary shelters by a group of unidentified people armed with wooden sticks and beaten up. Even their wives who tried to intervene were attacked.
Sun Huazhou, the manager of the company affiliated to Xi'an Railway Engineering Co which hired the workers, said he knew nothing about the beatings.
Sun said the company had sent 20,000 yuan (US$2,953) to pay the injured workers' medical costs.
The workers had been hired in April.
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