Thread: Lao Workers Protest Over Salary Withheld by China-Backed Potash Plant

Scores of laborers who work for a Chinese-backed potash plant in Laos have held a rare protest in the one-party communist nation to demand salary they say the facility’s owner never paid them, according to sources.

Operators of the plant, located in Xaythany district about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) outside of the capital Vientiane, have also drawn the ire of local residents who complain that its wastewater is polluting the area and destroying their farmland.

Around 70 Lao workers at the potash plant, which produces fertilizers, held a protest at the facility on March 18 demanding two months of back pay and expressing anger that they have not received regular pay like their Chinese coworkers.

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Wish them luck in their endeavours...