Beijing - More than twenty construction workers occupied a 17-storey apartment block in Beijing, demanding their unpaid wages, state media said Saturday. The workers occupied a residential building of real estate project Zhujiang Augusta in Beijing's Tongzhou district for three hours on Friday afternoon, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
Guo Yanjun, the workers' leader, was quoted as saying that they had not received any payment even though the project was almost complete.
Workers were owed 400,000 yuan (59,000 dollars) by the project owner, the report said.