Monday, July 10, 2006
Friday, July 07, 2006
China is laying its dick out daring WALMART to chop it off! --hahhahaa
From Forbes:
Lawmakers in China are planning to take action against US retailing giant Wal-Mart and other foreign firms to force them to allow their staff to join a union, state press said.
Legislators are planning to change the law to force foreign-funded enterprises to establish branches of the Communist Party-run All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) within their companies, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
‘We started to push Wal-Mart to set up union branches two years ago, yet there is not a single one built (set up) so far,’ Xinhua quoted Wang as saying.
‘We will continue working on this.’
The dispute has been a long-running one and Wal-Mart said in 2004 that it would allow its staff to join unions while insisting then it had not broken any laws.
According to China’s trade union law, all employees have the right to join ACFTU, the country’s only legal trade union.
However joining the union offers no guarantee for staff against exploitation, with the ACFTU often criticized by international labor rights groups for favoring business interests over workers’ rights.
- Click here to read more about Wal-Mart and workers’ issues.
- Click here and here to read about Wal-Mart in China.
The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments
The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes.
It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.