While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    18 hours ago

    They’re already in a union, this is China. All companies over a certain size are unionized by law.