本地 (ben di)- from local / basic soil. Often used as a badge of pride.
民工 (min gong)- common term for migrant worker in China. Interesting decomposition of the work - 民 (min) meaning a person, or member of the people. 工 (gong) meaning work (with one's hands, literal). This would be the closest match for a European moving country in seek of wage.
Also note that without a hukou they receive limited education and government services. This prevents them from settling in the cities they work in.
Religion? Ethnicity? Country of origin?
1. strange to see low quality politics news on frontpage
2. the public shaming is backed by the company whos boss was chief of security of high rank national leader
3. its not migrant worker. LangZhong where the story happened is a 99th tier town and sichaun province as a whole is a cheap labor source. Those workers are likely local.
4. those unpaid workers literally dragged a police officer to city hall as hostage asking for unpaid wage. Please be aware its not the government who owns these worker money.
5. unpaid peasant workers can be taken advantage of in china. e.g. your construction contractor finishes a low quality job, you are unwilling to pay 100%, contractor directly asks swarm of peasant workers to protest 7x24 and threaten you in various means until you pay up.
why govn't involed in all this? obviously commies has above the law regulation that peasant workers wage has a higher priority than everyone else, it's regarded as a highly politically correct thing to do. And most impirtantly, courts worked like shit in chinar.
