Employees unionize at Chinese Wal-Mart (their second trade union in China)

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://money.excite.com/ht/nw/bus/20060805/hle_bus-pek331394.html



Employees unionize at Chinese Wal-Mart

Saturday August 5, 7:52 AM EDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Employees of retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) have set up their second trade union in China, pushing toward the Chinese labor federation's goal of unionizing every Wal-Mart store in the country.

The second union was established by 42 employees of a Wal-Mart outlet in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

The first was set up late last month in the southeastern province of Fujian. A senior official of the state-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions has said the body will work toward establishing a union in every Wal-Mart outlet.

The U.S. retail chain, which employs more than 30,000 people at stores across China, has long resisted pressure to unionize its workers in the United States and elsewhere.

[fasttense]

1. Unions are fine in communist countries. It's just in

America that Wal-Mart wont allow Unions because their governments are anti-middle class. The only war the bushes are winning is the war on the middle class.

[stevebreeze]

2. doesn't it say something that they can organize in a dictatorship

with an authoritarian government but not in "The Land of the Free"?

[BayCityProgressive]

3. well

I would be surprised if they really get any benefits from organizing in China. The union is run by the government and just seems like another way for big brother to watch everyone.

[Donnachaidh]

4. Walmart wouldn't say shit about this

Isn't China it's main producer?

[Lefty48197]

5. Walmart LOVES unions that are controlled by totalitarian governments

It's free trade unions that Walmart, China, and Republicans despise.