Frankly, this is still not high enough given the company's huge profit margins from the manufacture of electronic goods for global IT giants.
Still, it represented progress, although it cost 10 precious lives (three of the workers survived their attempted suicides).
In the meantime, workers at Japanese auto giant Honda's parts unit in Foshan - a city not far from Shenzhen - in South China's Guangdong province, got a raise of 366 yuan after staging a 16-day strike.
There certainly was an employee trade union at the plant, but the organization did nothing to help the workers.
Ever since China became a market economy, conflicts between company managements and workers, especially in foreign- and Taiwan-invested companies, and other private enterprises, have increased, leading to tense stand-offs.
Trade unions though have done little to protect workers' interests. They have been more concerned about placating employee grievances in order to "harmonize" relations with the managements.
Most trade union officials are also members of the Communist Party. They must never forget that they, first and foremost, represent workers' interests, and that they must do more than simply hold "heart-to-heart" discussions with employees in order to safeguard those rights.
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