As Shanghai residents celebrated a partial end to a week-long, grueling city-wide shutdown, calls surfaced Wednesday for labor struggles from companies in the city to protest Chinese Zi Xin Jinping’s zero-COVID policy. When Shanghai City Council claimed the city’s shutdown had been lifted despite several barriers to movement around the city, an open letter began urging workers and businesses to “lay down on the job” and return to work, but not return to production, to circulate online. The May letter, written by companies instead of shop floor workers, predicts mass capital flight and widespread loss of public confidence in the…