Many return to work after Yue Yuen offer in China strike


  • World
  • Friday, 25 Apr 2014

Protesters from labour organizations shout slogans in support of the strike by workers at a Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd shoe factory complex in Dongguan, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong April 24, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Many of the thousands of shoe factory workers who have staged one of China's biggest strikes over the past two weeks have returned to work after the company agreed to meet some of their core demands, workers and a company official said on Friday.

Three workers at the vast Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd complex in the southern city of Dongguan estimated that more than half, maybe as many as 70 percent, of the 40,000-strong workforce had gone back to work by Friday.

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