Surprise snag in China's assembly line
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A large number of migrant workers in china are fed up with their low-paying jobs and are withdrawing the assembly line, thereby creating a significant labor shortage. Some of the factors that caused the sudden shortage of laborers in small- and medium-size factories are forced overtime, wages of $50 a month, rampant workplace, injury, disregard for labor law and frequent nonpayment.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 2004
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Shipping jobs overseas - and the factory, too: A television glass plant that could no longer make it in central Pennsylvania will be put in place in China
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Corning Inc.'s factory in State College, Pennsylvania closed the television glass plant in June 2003, making Welch and 1,000 other workers unemployed. The company sold its equipments from the factory to a Chinese company that plans to reassemble it in a virtually identical factory in the city of Anyang in central China.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
ISSN: 0885-6613
Year: 2004
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