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CHINA, WAL-MART AND LABOR UNIONS
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.

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