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Topic: Communist Party organizes cell in Chinese Wal-Mart
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unionist
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posted 18 December 2006 10:20 PM
Yes, you read that right:Wal-Mart's CPC branch applauded quote: Setting up branches of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) within overseas-funded companies will help improve relations between labour and management, observers said.The comments come shortly after Wal-Mart, the US retailing giant, opened a CPC branch at its Chinese headquarters in this southern city on Friday. "The CPC branch will focus its efforts on improving the communications between the employer and the employees, providing mediation when disputes arise and helping employees in need, which will be good for the company," Liu Lin, a professor of Party construction at the Shenzhen Party School, told China Daily yesterday. She said the employees would have no way to address potential problems if were not for the Party branch. She added that the Party would help the company avoid mass walk-outs or other forms of industrial action.
Excellent! Watch for Stephen Harper to invite the Chinese Communist Party to a factory near you!
From: Vote QS! | Registered: Dec 2005
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Fidel
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posted 20 December 2006 02:18 PM
Don't mention the word "union" in Burma or Mexico, is what I'm saying. Obviously, just having a union structure in place is a positive thing for China. China is not Canada or Britain. We shouldn't compare apples and oranges, because China's labour movement isn't where labour is in Canada, where it's had to fight tooth and nail to get where they are here and taking one step forward and two backward. China was a fourth world country as recently as 1949 and at a time when Canada was still an under-achieving resource-rich nation ourselves. We're talking about a country where people were born in rice paddies and died in the same general viscinity an average of 30 years later leading up to the Maoists seizing power. Trade unionism didn't just happen overnight in Canada like its not going to in China, or Myanmar, a country that borders China and one which we rarely even read about in newspapers, it's that disappointing wrt basic human rights in general. [ 20 December 2006: Message edited by: Fidel ]
From: Viva La Revolución | Registered: Apr 2004
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John K
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posted 20 December 2006 03:32 PM
The relationship between the Chinese Communist Party, its officially sanctioned "trade union", and retailing giant Wal-Mart is so cozy it would make CLAC blush.To wit: quote: Union leaders in China often wear three hats. Even as they represent workers, they often hold management jobs. Moreover, they usually are party cadres. Since unions are aligned with government goals for rapid economic growth, union chiefs often side with factory or business owners even when serious safety and wage issues emerge. "They want harmonious labor relations," said Qiao, the labor expert. Chen, the Nanjing labor boss, echoed that sentiment: "We trade union leaders will never organize the employees in launching a strike or to ask for unreasonable benefits."
http://tinyurl.com/y22pv7Wal-Mart's motivations for cozying up to the Chinese Communist Party are not hard to decipher. Wal-Mart sees this as their ticket to expanding their Chinese market share at the expense of their European-based retailing competitors whose corporate ethics don't allow for something quite so blatant.
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