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US boss detained in China for bid to shift business to India? - Times Of India
BEIJING: Foreign businessmen in Beijing are asking if the Communist Party-backed trade unions are working on plans to frustrate any possible moves to shift industrial units out of China.
They are shaken by the recent detention of an American businessman, who tried to shift his business to India.
Charles Starnes, 42, co-owner of speciality medical supplies firm Coral Springs, was detained for six days in his factory in the Beijing suburb of Huairou. What concerns foreign businesses is that the government, which usually disapproves labour strikes, allowed the detention by workers to continue for six days.
ome economists have suggested that foreign businesses might shift to neighbouring countries like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, where labour, land and other costs are lower.
The labour resistance in the medical supply plant suggests that this might prove to be difficult.
Workers at the plant were enraged when they saw a group of Indian engineers visiting the plant for inspections ahead of the company's plans to shift its injection moulding division to Mumbai, sources said. Workers were also demanding higher wages and better compensation for the division's employees who stood to lose jobs.
Local government officials and Communist Party cadre were involved in negotiations with the company's management. There was no major effort by officials to persuade workers to release Starnes from detention though it is an illegal activity, sources said.
manufacturing wise China is ahead of India and Indians have their own market to prosper. I feel some cooperation is needed between China and India. West is always dubious and devious, they always try to instigate animosity between the two asian giants.
BEIJING: Foreign businessmen in Beijing are asking if the Communist Party-backed trade unions are working on plans to frustrate any possible moves to shift industrial units out of China.
They are shaken by the recent detention of an American businessman, who tried to shift his business to India.
Charles Starnes, 42, co-owner of speciality medical supplies firm Coral Springs, was detained for six days in his factory in the Beijing suburb of Huairou. What concerns foreign businesses is that the government, which usually disapproves labour strikes, allowed the detention by workers to continue for six days.
ome economists have suggested that foreign businesses might shift to neighbouring countries like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, where labour, land and other costs are lower.
The labour resistance in the medical supply plant suggests that this might prove to be difficult.
Workers at the plant were enraged when they saw a group of Indian engineers visiting the plant for inspections ahead of the company's plans to shift its injection moulding division to Mumbai, sources said. Workers were also demanding higher wages and better compensation for the division's employees who stood to lose jobs.
Local government officials and Communist Party cadre were involved in negotiations with the company's management. There was no major effort by officials to persuade workers to release Starnes from detention though it is an illegal activity, sources said.
manufacturing wise China is ahead of India and Indians have their own market to prosper. I feel some cooperation is needed between China and India. West is always dubious and devious, they always try to instigate animosity between the two asian giants.
