Thousands of workers in China’s Guangdong province gathered in front of their workplace to protest pay cuts, overtime work without pay, and overdue social insurance owned by their employer. The labor protests broke out in front of Nanhua Metal Gem Craft Co. Ltd. in Nanhai, Foshan City, overnight on March 18 and extended into March 19. Local authorities sent a large number of police to observe and eventually crack down on the protest. More than 40 workers were arrested. The protest started around 6 p.m. on the evening of March 18. The crowd of more than a hundred employees gathered at the gate of the factory increased to a sizeable two and then three thousand by late evening. Mr. Lin, an employee at the company who attended the protest, told The Epoch Times that around 70 police vehicles sent to the protest around 2 a.m. on March 19. No arrests were …