Workers refuse to back down

A wave of strikes in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas over pay and compensation gathered momentum yesterday.

The increasing regularity of walkouts in the industrial heartlands is a sign of rising labour tensions as an ever more combative workforce faces off against employers battling the effects of a global slowdown.

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