Chinese Factory Bosses Guarded From Workers
from Reuters
BEIJING —
Chinese factory bosses are being given special police protection from their own workers after a wave of attacks and killings brought on by economic reforms.
Chinese newspapers said that Zhang Zhifa, a worker in a cold-storage plant in Wuhan, central China, had been sentenced to be shot for stabbing to death plant director Pan Maohua after the worker was suspended for fighting and laziness.
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