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Wal-Mart Wins Round Three Against Chinese Union Federation
Talking Union
September 27, 2008
» Go to http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/is-union-reform-possible-in-china/
[Excerpt]
On 29 September from 7:00 to 8:30 PM the International Labor Forum and the National Labor College are co-hosting a discussion about Wal-Mart workers unions in China at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md. Announcement and Details . Both speakers Anita Chan and Jeff Fiedler know a great deal about Wal-Mart in China, and their different perspectives should lead to a vigorous debate and informative discussion.
The event is especially well-timed, since the most active grassroots union leader at Wal-Mart China has just resigned his post to protest the company’s circumvention of the collective bargaining process for his store,at Nanchang Bayi. The company first refused to bargain over basic issues such as employee health and safety and wage determination, and then had the boilerplate agreement signed by the union chairman at another store. By openly flaunting the elementary standards of collective bargaining, Wal-Mart in effect is making a mockery of the claim that all of its stores in China are “organized” by the Chinese union federation ACFTU.
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