labor - Shenzhen strikers hit the blogosphere

I thought I would have a quiet weekend and then I had to send out this article to a few news outlet: Labor unrest is increasingly hitting the economy as migrant workers would rather stay at home and work in the booming agriculture. Especially southern China has been hit by a shortage of labor that has made it easier for disgruntled workers to get into action. Ten days ago the 12, 000 workers of a Wal-Mart supplier, a sino-Japanese joint venture walked out. Interesting detail of the story, writen by Howard French of the New York Times, was that the workers, banned from organizing themselves, used SMS-messages to stay in touch with each other.
Now also a weblog has emerged, maintained by the strikers, reports Blogger Isaac Mao. The strike, now ten days old is continuing without any indication of a result, the blog says.