「美克家居关厂不赔，上千员工连日维权无果（2026.01-06）」1月6日，在中国知名家具品牌美克美家宣布关停天津基地后，上千名走投无路的工人发起的维权行动已持续了6天。据工人透露，美克不仅无意支付之前拖欠的薪资，而且连法定的赔偿金也试图一并“赖掉”。
公开资料显示，这家成立于1990年，总部位于乌鲁木齐的老牌企业，曾大手笔收购美国Schnadig等多家国际品牌，一度是国内高端家具的代名词。然而，自2022年起，在疫情、贸易战及楼市崩盘的轮番重击下，这家上市公司业绩快速下滑，连续三年累计亏损超过16亿元人民币，经营状况持续恶化。
自2024年起，美克家居便开始出现拖欠工资的情况。进入2025年后，欠薪问题越加严重，员工被拖欠工资时间长达5至8个月。2025年下半年，美克位于江西赣州和天津的生产基地，均曾发生了较大规模的员工讨薪事件。
工人们没想到的是，进入2026年，他们等来的不是工资，而是美克宣布关闭工厂并拒绝赔偿。据员工透露，公司更是在近日开出及其无理的条件：要么按“一线员工只发欠薪的80%，二线员工发60%”的标准签字走人，要么到1月15号被公司赶走，因为公司将在1月15日收回宿舍。
目前，工人的维权行动仍在继续。参考此前广东深圳易力声、东莞长荣玩具等工厂的维权案例，中资企业已普遍开启了“裁员不赔偿”的“老赖”模式，而当局出于利益和维稳考量，往往会在双方的博弈中偏向资方，打压工人。由此可见，工人的维权之路将会异常艰难。
Markor Home Furnishings Refuses Compensation Upon Factory Closure; Days of Protests by Thousands of Employees Yield No Results (January 6, 2026)
On January 6, following the announcement by the renowned Chinese furniture brand Markor Home Furnishings (Markor) that it would close its Tianjin base, a protest launched by over a thousand desperate workers entered its sixth day. According to workers, Markor not only has no intention of paying previously owed wages but is also attempting to “renege” on statutory severance compensation.
Public records show that this veteran enterprise, established in 1990 and headquartered in Urumqi, once spent heavily to acquire multiple international brands, including the American company Schnadig. It was once synonymous with high-end domestic furniture. However, since 2022, under the successive blows of the pandemic, the trade war, and the collapse of the real estate market, this listed company’s performance has declined rapidly. It has accumulated losses exceeding 1.6 billion RMB over three consecutive years, with its operating conditions continuing to deteriorate.
Starting in 2024, Markor Home Furnishings began to delay wage payments. Entering 2025, the issue of wage arrears worsened, with employees being owed wages for as long as five to eight months. In the second half of 2025, Markor’s production bases in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and Tianjin both experienced large-scale protests by employees demanding their unpaid wages.
What the workers did not expect was that upon entering 2026, what awaited them was not their wages, but Markor’s announcement that it was closing the factory and refusing compensation. According to employees, the company recently proposed extremely unreasonable conditions: employees must either sign an agreement to leave based on a standard of “frontline workers receiving only 80% of arrears, and support staff receiving 60%,” or face eviction on January 15, as the company plans to reclaim the dormitories on that date.
Currently, the workers’ rights defense actions are continuing. Referencing previous rights defense cases such as Yilisheng in Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Changrong Toys in Dongguan, Chinese-funded enterprises have universally adopted a “deadbeat” mode of “layoffs without compensation.” Meanwhile, authorities, motivated by interests and “stability maintenance” considerations, often side with capital in these disputes and suppress the workers. Consequently, it is evident that the workers’ path to defending their rights will be exceptionally difficult.