China - Union leaders are attacked by thugs

Around 300 logistics workers working for the company Sinotrans in Shenzen were pressured by management to agree to be transferred to Dongguan. This is also when workers who had been working for the material storage of the company realised that they were not considered regular employees but were in fact agency workers employed through different recruitment agencies. Management called elected workers’ representatives to a meeting with management to discuss the matter. However, on their way, the workers were attacked by 20 thugs who took their IDs away and forced them to sign resignation letters.