After a fortnight’s strike, Baidu‘s workers have called it off to let the company come out with an acceptable agreement regarding pay cuts of workers. The bad news is that the strike might begin again if no agreement is reached between the two. The problems surfaced despite Baidu doing well in its first quarter and still decreased salaries by 30%. Workers state that the firm is doing to in order to have employees quit their jobs rather than laying them off. However the firm defended itself stating that the cuts were to sail the company through in tough economic times where ad sales continues to take a hammering. I am not sure if the workers, who have just stopped going to office or not doing work if they are there would listen to all this.
