On 5 November 2025, news of a strike at the Simandou iron mine project in Guinea surfaced on Chinese social media. Reports indicated that Shanxi Construction Investment, the project contractor, had long withheld wages from Chinese workers, forcing them to work unpaid for three consecutive months.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Center reached out to Shanxi Construction Investment and Simandou iron mine project's investor Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) to respond to the report. The companies did not respond.