To be honest, Yu Lian swore to the Spirit of the Universe that he genuinely knew nothing about the sudden outbreak of this demonstration. He didn't know the organizers' names, how many of them there were, or how they were organized. He didn't even know what they wanted. Still, he had to admit that this labor movement had been remarkably peaceful. Though the three hundred thousand workers had blocked the main roads and spaceport entrances of Space City No. 8, they hadn't restricted ordinary citizens' movement, and there'd been no looting. Overall, they'd shown considerable restraint; one could even call it civilized.
The demonstration had lasted nearly a week, and the spaceport had been blocked for just as long. Only then did Yu Lian learn that the shipyard workers' demand was simply "an average monthly wage increase of 50 Credit Stars."
...Well, all right. According to statistics from 832, the Alliance's average monthly salary was 1,100 Credit Stars. Considering that there were still plenty of workers in remote star regions and member states without even basic social security, an extra 50 bucks was probably a fair amount.
But in Nefei, where prices were relatively high, it was only enough for a family of three to go downstairs for a meal.
So the capitalists frankly declared that they absolutely couldn't accept these prices.
In the end, supposedly, the main organizers were found to have all kinds of problems: tax evasion, cheating in school, drunk driving, hitting an elderly woman crossing the street, getting a girl pregnant and running off, and so on. They were either arrested or publicly disgraced.
And so, this sizable labor movement came to a gentle, rain-on-spring-earth end.
But however you looked at it, a delay was still a delay.
By now, the crews from the Community who