Zambian miners kill Chinese supervisor and injure another in pay dispute

[Duct Tape]

Source: Guardian

Zambian miners killed a Chinese supervisor and seriously wounded another on Saturday in a pay dispute at the Collum coal mine, labour minister Fackson Shamenda said on Sunday.

Chinese companies have invested more than $1bn in Zambia's copper industry, but animosity towards them is growing as Zambian workers accuse firms of abuses and underpaying.

Workers at Collum, 325km (200 miles) south of the capital, Lusaka, attacked Chinese bosses, demanding wage rises in line with those stipulated by the government last month.

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China, which is hungry for resources, is investing heavily in Africa, a supplier of oil and raw materials such as copper and uranium, but critics have warned that its companies are importing their poor track record on workers' rights.


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[elleng]

1. Hope they get their act together.

[madrchsod]

2. the rape of africa continues with a new colonial power

the chinese are just as arrogant as the americans, europeans, and the arabs

[xtraxritical]

4. Touche

[Suji to Seoul]

6. Actually, the problem is they do that shit here in China and no one does or says anything

and then demand the foreigners sacrifice everything they are to "honor" and "respect" Chinese culture and traditions. So when Chinese businessmen, industrialists, princelings and students leave for another country, they pull the same crap and then speak badly about the other country and their people when they come home failures with their tail between their legs because they expect others in other countries to "honor" and "respect" Chinese culture and traditions. Something about having cake and eating it to is very common in this place.

My Chinese wife finally sees that and has asked me to find her a job in a foreign country because, as she puts it, "China would be great if it weren't for all the people."

Before you flame me. . .I've lived here for five years. Trust me, what foreigners know about this place would fill one page of a 1,000 page book.

[elleng]

8. Thanks. Very interesting.

NOT very surprising.

[madrchsod]

9. no flame here...

[JI7]

10. Most Critics of China are Chinese who are living in other countries

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. Sounds more of a human condition than racial/ethnic/national

[Crowman1979]

3. You can only push the working-poor so far...

...until they snap and have to take actions like this in order for themselves and their families to survive.

[nanabugg]

5. Chinese try to copy our brand of capitalism but fail to study history. nt

[lovuian]

7. The worker will rise up

Marx is right and this is an example

China better be careful because the Copper industry can go Nationalist

You can see why countries do this

Capitalism is a failed system especially for the worker

America better WAKE UP
we sell China our corn and then we starve our farmers and people

because of a drought
we have food stamp program ....

[davepc]

11. You mean Chineese marxism is just as explotive as US capatalism?

Why I'll be!