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Source: Associated Press

Chinese Employers Accused of Goon Hiring

Sunday January 6, 2:01 pm ET
By William Foreman, Associated Press Writer

Chinese Employers Accused of Hiring Hoodlums to Attack, Cow Labor Organizers

SHENZHEN, China (AP) -- Huang Qingnan lifts his hospital sheets and shows a long scar below his left hip. His right thigh needed stitches and surgeons fought to mend muscle and tendon gashed in his calf.

The 34-year-old labor activist was stabbed repeatedly by knife-wielding thugs, one in a series of attacks that experts and workers' rights advocates fear may signal a worrying new trend -- privatized intimidation.

Once it would have been the communist government going after activists such as Huang. Today, he's less worried about the government and more about gangsters he believes are being hired by China's rough new capitalists to cow troublesome workers.

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Liu Kaiming, who runs the Institute of Contemporary Observation, another Shenzhen labor group, said authorities know who attacked Huang but won't do anything "because the government doesn't care much about the case."

Read more: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080106/china_attacks_on_activists.html

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The Chinese government doesn't want to do anything about the union-busting? Well, then shouldn't their Most Favored Nation trading partner status with the U.S. be automatically revoked??? (Yeah, like that's going to happen anytime soon. :eyes: )