Jack Chiang This is Me

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1. 1. yummy wakame : daily brain goo

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   Published on: 12/5/2004   Last Visited: 3/13/2005

   Jack Chiang, Stella's chief executive officer suggested that several factors have contributed to the shift in attitude. On the one hand, he acknowledged, assembly-line wages have not risen in recent years nearly as fast as the cost of living. And image-conscious US retailers who buy Dongguan's shoes have demanded better treatment and human rights counseling for the workers, encouraging them to demand change. Finally, Chiang added, broader general freedoms in the country have reduced the Chinese people's traditional fear of authority, and not just among factory workers. Protests by farmers and others, many of them violent, have broken out with increasing frequency across the country recently.

2. 2. www.timesizing.com

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   Last Visited: 5/22/2008

   "We never had anything like that before," said Jack Chiang, Stella's chief executive.€ Eight people slashed to death at Chinese high school€ China approves testing for potential AIDS vaccineChiang suggested that several factors have contributed to the shift in attitude.On the one hand, he acknowledged, assembly-line wages have not risen in recent years nearly as fast as the cost of living.On the other, image-conscious U.S. retailers who buy Dongguan's shoes have demanded better treatment and human rights counseling for the workers, encouraging them to step up and make demands for change.Finally, Chiang added, broader general freedoms in the country have reduced the Chinese people's traditional fear of authority, and not just among factory workers.Protests by farmers and others, many of them violent, have broken out with increasing frequency across the country in recent months.
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   Chiang said the first of his company's two walkouts erupted in March over complaints about food in the company cafeteria and an error in the amount of wages docked for vacation time during the Chinese New Year.The second, which produced the violent rioting and injuries, occurred a month later, encouraged by local employment brokers who used to earn commissions for job placements but had been replaced by a company employment office, he said."I had my head in how to make beautiful shoes," he explained in an interview.
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   It started a magazine to air workers' views and fostered new workers' committees, which, according to Chiang, can meet with management to forward workers' concerns to the top."We would never have done this kind of thing a year ago," he said.

3. 3. Timesizing News

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   Published on: 6/29/2004   Last Visited: 6/30/2005

   "We never had anything like that before," said Jack Chiang, Stella's chief executive. € Eight people slashed to death at Chinese high school € China approves testing for potential AIDS vaccine Chiang suggested that several factors have contributed to the shift in attitude. On the one hand, he acknowledged, assembly-line wages have not risen in recent years nearly as fast as the cost of living. On the other, image-conscious U.S. retailers who buy Dongguan's shoes have demanded better treatment and human rights counseling for the workers, encouraging them to step up and make demands for change. Finally, Chiang added, broader general freedoms in the country have reduced the Chinese people's traditional fear of authority, and not just among factory workers. Protests by farmers and others, many of them violent, have broken out with increasing frequency across the country in recent months.
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   Chiang said the first of his company's two walkouts erupted in March over complaints about food in the company cafeteria and an error in the amount of wages docked for vacation time during the Chinese New Year. The second, which produced the violent rioting and injuries, occurred a month later, encouraged by local employment brokers who used to earn commissions for job placements but had been replaced by a company employment office, he said. "I had my head in how to make beautiful shoes," he explained in an interview.
   ...
   It started a magazine to air workers' views and fostered new workers' committees, which, according to Chiang, can meet with management to forward workers' concerns to the top. "We would never have done this kind of thing a year ago," he said.