Treating workers like rags surest way to court trouble

Reports of workers holding their employers hostage, including the company owner, a Chinese national Nianhai Zheng, at a chrome mine in Gweru last week, appear to indicate our Chinese friends may not have taken heed of warnings, coming through numerous media reports, not to ill-treat their workers or to take them for granted.

More than 200 angry workers locked their bosses in their offices overnight last Friday, demanding their June salaries and other dues owed to them by the Chinese company.

Worse things could have happened to the company management had they not called in riot police for protection.

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