The Chinese Daily reported today about this woman launching a nude protest in order to get her money back from her factory employer.
The 26 year old woman was a migrant worker. She came. She worked. And she lefft without getting paid the 8,000 yuan (abt $1000) she was owed.
It seems the police showed up but did NOT arrest her. This begs the question - well, what did they do? Take her out for coffee?
She was exposed for about 3 daylight hours and created quite a traffic jam of onlookers and passersby. I used to be able to do that just by paying for something at a toy store - people flocked just to see what this laowai foreigner was buying.
Hunger strikes, peasant strikes....but I have never heard of a nude strike in China, have you?
It is still not known if she got her money back...but perhaps other people offered her money for other reasons.
What do you think?
» Woman strips to claim back pay from CSR Asia - Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia
Last night I posted a story about migrant workers fighting for back pay. The picture left shows a different way of protesting for wages owed. In this case, a woman (26-years-old and 1.6 metres high, which the article mentions for some reason) stripped ... [Read More]
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