16 people threaten to jump of the bridge together for wages – China News

www.chinahush.com — Because of labor disputes with the factory, more than 30 Hunan province contractors from a (beer) brewery in Guangzhou went to the Haizhu bridge (海珠桥) together performed a “jumping off the bridge show”.

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