North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager

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So that's why clothes from Temu smell like that...

I couldn't find an image but there's an old Far Side cartoon that shows a building that's something like "Jake's Croissants and Fill Dirt". Reminds me of that.

My boss ordered an anti-fatigue mat from Amazon recently and entirety of the inside of that package smelled like a fish market.

The connection is that they both require workers, but don't want to pay them

Clothes that smell like seafood straight from the factory could be the next $100 white t-shirt or designer jeans with rips already in them.

Because these two industries are both labor intensive.

Derek’s Derelict clothing line must be made there

The night and day crew use the same equipment for different purposes. (they're on 12 hour shifts because that's more efficient or something probably)

I read this somewhere else on Lemmy recently (sorry for comment steal):

American companies that are trying to dismantle unions need to understand that unions were a compromise to protect the companies. Because this is the alternative.

Except they’re now all organ donors.

You're a literal slave? You are not paid for the work you do? You work sleep work and nothing else? You are physically and mentally mistreated at work? Does your work make you suicidal? Are you unable to switch to a different job? Do you live under a dictatorial regime? Will you be shot and killed if you try to escape?

Yeah, I doubt you can honestly say yes to even a single one of those questions. Some of today's work environments have issues, with a lot of them caused by companies, but a lot of them also caused by the likes of you who do want the perks and the money, but who just flat out refuse to do anything at all beyond complaining and talking about murdering those that did work hard.

I've been a low level employee, I've been dirt poor, I worked myself up over the years. I've had loads of shitty bosses, I've been (technically still am) a company owner, now I'm a C level director. I work hard, work responsibly, and try to do the best for all employees in my teams. Should I be murdered too?

With people like you it's not the company that is a problem, you are the problem. Fix your own life before you start threatening those that you don't like

lemmygrad mod if they were chinese union buster in this situation: YOU'RE BREAKING LEFTIST UNITY

I'm legitimately curious about their takes on this...

I don't think they are federated? Neither is the other big community whatever it's called.

I wonder if they think they actually DO live under communism?

It seems like with that level of militancy they've got some pretty powerful class consciousness.

North Koreans in China showing the world how it's done. Who had THAT on their bingo card ?

Americans forget their middle class existed for the short time it did exactly because of actions like this.

You don't fight the enemy sitting on your toilet reading Lemmy posts. (It's still fun though)

I literally said to myself "hell yeah!" reading the headline, and then opened to find it was the top comment 😂

Until China has to kill all of them because North Korea won't take them back.

Welcome to the Rednecks, North Koreans.

So exactly the same as the rest of the industrialized world?

I wonder how many mental gymnastics is needed by tankies to explain that.

Watch the so-called "Communist" Party leaders decry this and crush it violently. Marx is rolling so much in his grave that if they attached a generator to him they could power half of China with the electricity

Better than anything occurring here. American workers are all talk.

Then you really aren't going to like the actions the OG unions took.

you dont know what that guy has done. maybe he's killed workers himself.

Might depend on the Plant manager. If they were just a regular person trying to do their job, then yeah, that's a pretty shitty thing to do. Like, I understand when my manager needs us to do certain things or pushes on some aspect, they're under the gun as much as us workers to get results. I actually get along well with my managers and I like all of them, I even actually enjoy my job a bit. Not sure how I'd react though if I wasn't getting paid, that's kind of pushing people into desperation.

If the person was the cause of many of their misgivings and was just a general prick to everybody, then... I don't know, maybe they had it coming? Article only mentioned a "representative" though, so not sure why that person in was singled out, maybe it was an NK internal security person who reported people to their government?

Doesn't China regularly execute managers anyway? I'm completely against the death penalty, but I remember the melamine milk thing resulted in multiple executions (and a bunch of other sentences for other people).