The owner of a Florida-based medical supply company has been trapped inside his company’s factory in China by a group of about 80 angry workers, though they deny mistreating him physically.
“We women can’t hold the boss hostage,” one employee, Gao Ping, told CBS News. “We’re negotiating. He didn’t pay us wages.”
But their employer, 42-year-old Chip Starnes, said employees have deprived him of sleep since first taking him captive on June 21 and blocked him from leaving the Specialty Medical Supplies facility in Beijing. He also denied owing his captors two months’ worth of salary and severance packages after laying about 30 employees off.
“They’re kind of holding me in a cage like an animal,” Starnes shouted from behind a window to a reporter.
Starnes, the company’s co-owner, was allowed to speak to CBS from behind a gate at the facility, but declined to take the chance to escape, explaining that it “would probably be the wrong impression to give at this point in time.”
I fucking love this story
Hahahaha, I saw this this morning and my first thought was to send it to you. I think it’s wonderful. Since the Reich’s Supremes has determined that working people have no rights, we’ll just have to claim them for ourselves. Let’s suggest a “Lock Up Your Boss Day” or “Cage Your Boss Day” on Obama’s petition web page.
Wasn’t there a film about this? LOL