China: 50 percent of IBM Shenzhen workers leave the company rather than being transferred to Lenovo

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14 March 2014 à 08h30

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More than half the workers decided to accept the American company’s offer to leave rather than going with Lenovo.
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Since March 3, an IBM factory in Shenzhen has been on strike to reject the conditions for transferring to Lenovo (see article No. 8235). This social movement is almost completely hidden in the Chinese media, as 50 percent of their content is still dedicated to the end of the annual Parliament session. Xin Jing Bao, the daily, is one of the only newspapers that echoed this case’s latest developments, which can also be monitored on the strikers’ microblogs. On March 10, the management publish

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