US company boss freed; Union 'OK' with agreement
By Jin Haixing | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-28 08:05
Chip Starnes, president of Florida-based Speciality Medical Supplies, returns to the room where he was being detained as factory workers block journalists trying to follow him after his news conference at the company's factory in Huairou district, Beijing, on Wednesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters |
A US company executive who was held captive by his workers in a plant in Beijing over a financial dispute has been freed after the local trade union intermediated in the case.
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