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Article

27 Feb 2008

Author:
Frank Langfitt, National Public Radio

Law Grants More Protection for Chinese Workers

Labor activist Huang Qingnan, who was promoting the law, was stabbed in broad daylight...So who was behind the attack? "The factory owners," Huang says...Jin Chunyi...worked with toxic chemicals in a printing ink factory. Recently, she learned she has a low white blood-cell count. Her boss has already spent more than $130,000 on a fellow worker who got leukemia...Several weeks after the contract law went into effect, the factory offered Jin two months' severance and told her to leave.