Time: August 2006 17, 4: 00 p.m. to 9: 30 p.m.
Venue: Nanning Department Store in the bustling downtown area of Nanning.
Event: Workers in Nanbai went on strike.
Abstract: Nanning department store is a large state-owned enterprise approved by Nanning municipal government, with assets of hundreds of millions and a history of 50 years.
When the unknown price was acquired by private individuals, nearly 1,000 employees in Nanbai went on strike to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. After 8 pm, about 300 police officers, composed of public security, riot police and police academy students, rushed into the department store to disperse the strikers in the violent way used by the Citizens Party to deal with demonstrators. Several people were arrested in the police car, and nearly 10 people were seriously injured and taken to a nearby hospital by workers.
Background: On June 26th, 2006, Nanning Peining Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Yaao Digital Co., Ltd. signed the Contract for the Transfer of State-owned Shares of Nanning Department Store Co., Ltd., the transferor was Nanning Municipal People's Government, and the transferee was Shenzhen Yaao Digital Co., Ltd. ... All the state-owned shares were transferred, that is, 24.62%, with the transfer amount of 72 million yuan, while the registered capital of the transferee was only 50 million yuan.
The transferor promises to the employee: after the transfer, the employee's identity, labor relations and retired employee's treatment will remain unchanged-that is, the three will remain unchanged. Nowadays, it seems that the enterprise has changed from state-owned to private, the labor contract must be changed, and the transferee denies the promise of "three unchanged", which is enough to show that "three unchanged" is just a trick to deceive the broad masses of workers.
The transferor has successively made four unsigned, undated and unsigned employee placement plans, which violated the corresponding national policies and submitted them to the workers' congress for discussion, but none of them passed.
Event: Under the above background, the transferor drove the employee representatives to the Dawangtan holiday villa which had already been booked on August 17, and prepared to use two days to force Congress to pass their employee resettlement plan. And the news has spread among other employees.
At 4: 30 pm, after the workers' representatives arrived at Dawangtan Holiday Villa, almost all the workers gathered in Nanning Department Store, which worked hard every day, and started a sit-in strike with the workers on duty. They stopped their normal business, explained the reasons for this forced action to customers, and waited for customers to leave one after another.
At 4: 30 pm, the police began to gather in front of Nanning Department Store.
At 5 pm, the workers' representatives who were taken to Dawangtan Holiday Villa returned to Nanning and the workers in Nanning Department Store.
At 5: 30 pm, the riot squad and the police academy students gathered and closed all the entrances and exits, forming a confrontation with the sit-ins inside.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, they began to disperse the onlookers and stopped taking pictures and videos.
At 8: 30 p.m., about 300 police officers, composed of public security, riot police and police academy students, rushed into the department store to disperse the strikers in the violent way that Citizens Party used to deal with demonstrators (for some reasons, the details are inconvenient to explain). During this period, several people were arrested in the police car, and nearly 10 people were seriously injured and sent to a nearby hospital by workers.
During the whole sit-in strike, the workers did not use any violence and did not damage any public property. The employees' helpless move this time is only to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, and only to have more hope for their future life.