{"id":36297,"date":"2013-06-25T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36297"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:16:22","slug":"huffpost-chinese-workers-holding-american-boss-hostage-we-havent-been-paid-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/06\/25\/huffpost-chinese-workers-holding-american-boss-hostage-we-havent-been-paid-in-months\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Chinese Workers Holding American Boss Hostage: We Haven&#8217;t Been Paid In Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Chinese workers keeping an American executive confined to his Beijing medical supply factory said Tuesday that they had not been paid in two months in a compensation dispute that highlights tensions in China&#8217;s labor market.<\/p>\n<p>The executive, Chip Starnes of Specialty Medical Supplies, denied the workers&#8217; allegations of two months of unpaid wages, as he endured a fifth day of captivity at the plant in the capital&#8217;s northeastern suburbs, peering out from behind the bars of his office window.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 workers are demanding back pay and severance packages identical to those offered 30 workers being laid off from the Coral Springs, Florida-based company&#8217;s plastics division. The demands followed rumors that the entire plant was being closed, despite Starnes&#8217; assertion that the company doesn&#8217;t plan to fire the others.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute highlights general tensions in China&#8217;s labor market as bosses worry about rising wages and workers are on edge about the impact of slowing growth on the future of their jobs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/25\/chinese-workers-boss-hostage_n_3494070.html?utm_hp_ref=business\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Chinese workers keeping an American executive confined to his Beijing medical supply factory said Tuesday that they had not been paid in two months in a compensation dispute that highlights tensions in China&#8217;s labor market. The executive, Chip Starnes of Specialty Medical Supplies, denied the workers&#8217; allegations of two months of unpaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36299,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36297\/revisions\/36299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}