Now that the media echo chamber has seemingly stopped reverberating stories about demonstrating workers demanding pay from runaway company owners, the South China Morning Post now reports (registration required) on company owners demonstrating for payment from escapee debtors.
About 200 factory suppliers gathered outside the Guangdong government headquarters yesterday to demand assistance in recovering around 100 million yuan (HK$112.7 million) that they said was owed to them by a car-audio company.
According to the article, the car-audio company in question, Hong Kong-owned RedPower Electronics, failed to make payment to about 500 suppliers. This demonstration in Guangzhou, follows a more violent demonstration in Dongguan:
They sought provincial government assistance after their protest in Dongguan on Wednesday met with a police crackdown.
The clash began when the suppliers tried to rush into the Red Power factory. About a dozen were injured; two are still in hospital.
A new trend?
It will be interesting to see how the local law firm environment develops with this trend…