Chinese construction workers go out on a limb to get paid By Noah Kosharek Three Chinese construction workers gave their Israeli counterparts a lesson yesterday in standing up for their rights - from 20 floors above ground.

For several hours they stood atop the arm of a giant crane, demanding the money they believe they were owed, before the contractor employing them gave in and paid them hours before they returned to China. The workers - Huang Bing, Yuang Tsung Bing and Wan Ping - are in all their 40s and have families in China. Each was paid NIS 4,000 in cash, as were two of their co-workers who did not take part in the protest.

"We wouldn't have come down," they said yesterday, their words translated by an employee of the non-profit organization Kav LaOved ("Workers' Hotline"). "We would have waited another two days on the crane and paid the 100-dollar fine." The episode started early yesterday morning at the construction site of a 20-story luxury tower on Kiryat Ono's Rabin Street. more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116083.html