Epoch Times reported that nearly 10,000 employees of the Chengdu Steel & Vanadium Company went on strike on January 4th 2011 and about 5,000 employees then marched from the factory to the entrance of Chengdu Mianyang Expressway where they were stopped by over 1,000 policemen.

When local officials and a representative from the company’s work unit arrived they asked the employees to leave and promised to come up with a plan to resolve the salary issue.

The employees demanded that the company representative promise a pay raise on the spot before they would leave but this was denied.

After a few hours of standoff, the police began to disperse the protesters by force.

According to one of the employees, Yuan, the police used pepper spray on them and injured three and arrested five. The employees asked the company representative to release the five who were arrested and to have the general manager meet with them. The representative promised to have the police release the arrestees but the general manager refused to see the protesters.

Chengdu Steel & Vanadium Company is located in Qingbaijiang District in Chengdu city, the capital of Sichuan Province. CSVC is a subsidiary company of Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. It produces metal bars, rods, and seamless steel pipes and has over 14,000 employees.

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(Sourced from theepochtimes.com)