China steel workers kill manager

Definitely Don't want to be a manager of anything in China ! What a tough Crowd !

AFP
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have scrapped the takeover of a steel plant where workers killed a manager in fury at threatened job cuts, an official and state media said Monday.

Workers at the Tonghua Iron and Steel Group beat to death newly appointed manager Chen Guojun on Friday after he threatened to lay off up to 30,000 people in a controversial restructuring, the China Daily reported.

Chen was killed when about 3,000 company workers forced a production shutdown at the plant in northeast China's Jilin province after an announcement that privately-owned Jianlong Group was taking over Tonghua, it said.

"Chen disillusioned workers and provoked them by saying most of them would be laid off in three days," the China Daily quoted a local police officer identified only as Wang as saying.

After severely beating Chen, workers clashed with police and refused to allow medical personnel to attend the badly injured general manager. Chen was declared dead late Friday after finally being taken to hospital.

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