DHAKA: Hundreds of workers shouted slogans on Wednesday outside a Nokia factory in southern China to protest against what they called unfair compensation after the company sold its mobile telephones business to Microsoft Corp.

Lack of trust in employers has often led Chinese workers to balk at takeovers they fear will harm employment conditions.

Workers massed outside the factory gates in the industrial city of Dongguan said they were battling new contracts worsening employment terms that they had been forced to sign after the US software giant bought Nokia’s unit in a September deal.

‘We will definitely continue to fight until we get what’s fair,’ said a young male worker wearing a checked shirt, who gave only his surname, Zhang, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1838 HRS, NOV 20, 2013
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