Items tagged with "acftu"
The Wenling Model: an experiment in trade-wide collective bargaining
... Click here to download this introduction in PDF format ... Much is written about the trade union in China, but how much do we know about how it ... operates inside workplaces, and how it negotiates with private enterprises over wages and conditions ... workers? The Wal-Mart company-wide collective bargaining agreement was one such insight into the All ... Federation of Trades Unions (ACFTU) approach to collective bargaining. ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/49/wenling · 21 October 2009
The dismissal of union chair Liu Yongyi from the Guangdong Federation of Trade Union’s own hotel building
... In this short installment of China Labor News Translations, we bring you the story of the ... of union chair from a hotel building owned by the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions ( ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/39/dismissal-of-union-chair · 16 June 2009
The Bad and the Good of the Wal-Mart ACFTU Collective Agreement
... The attached document is a translation of the collective agreement in effect between one of the ... unionized Wal-Mart stores in China and the responsible local trade union committee. It represents ... template agreement that has been followed by all of the unionized Wal-Mart stores in China since ... 2008. To put this agreement in global perspective, there is not a single collective ... at any Wal-Mart store in the USA, while in Canada the only existing ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/38/wal-mart-contract · 18 May 2009
Ole Wolff (Yantai) Union Struggle Part Two
... A union struggle for union self-determination continues In October ... CLNT covered the case of the Ole Wolff (Yantai) Trade Union, or ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/37/ole-wolff-2 · 10 March 2009
Workers fight to save their union activists
... The case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd This case of unusual ... and file union activism in China can be seen as both good and bad news. The good news is that, in ... North-Eastern Chinese port city of Yantai there are workers willing to struggle for two years for ... right to form their own union that will stand up for their rights. The bad news is that this ... has taken a heavy toll on union activists, at least seven of whom have been fired because of their ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/35/workers-fight-to-save-their-union-activists · 16 October 2008
Promising Wal-Mart Trade Union Chair Resigns Over Collective Contract Negotiations
... Disappointing news emerged on 17 September, that Gao Haitao – the only known Wal-Mart trade ... leader to have actively stood up for his members interests, and the hero of Wal-Mart workers in the ... – has resigned from his position out of frustration over Wal-Marts refusal to enter into ... collective bargaining. On 14 July this year, the All China Federation of Trade Unions ( ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/34/promising-wal-mart-trade-union-chair-resigns-over-collective-contract-negotiations · 22 September 2008
Shunda Factory’s Rigged Trade Union Election
... CLNT has just secured a report from a production line worker, Worker ... (a pseudonym) at the Shunda factory which was the subject of CLNTs August 2007 posting, ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/29/shunda-factorys-rigged-trade-union-election · 19 March 2008
First KFC Trade Union Branch Established
... In March this year KFC, McDonalds and Pizza Hut were discovered by ... of a Chinese newspaper to be paying illegally low wages to their part-time and casual work-study ... in Guangzhou City (see CLNT posting Western Fast Food Chains violate ... wage laws). After much outcry from the public the issue fizzled out after a month because the two ... were able to make use of a loophole in the Chinese legal system that exempts work-study students ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/22/first-kfc-trade-union-branch-established · 13 August 2007
“Change to Win” delegates visit China
... This May a delegation of leaders representing the American labor federation Change to Win (CtW) ... a groundbreaking visit to China to engage in high level talks with representatives from the All ... Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). Members of the CtW delegation included ... Chair Anna Burger, CtW Executive Director Greg Tarpinian, CtW Secretary-Treasurer and ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/18/change-to-win-delegates-visit-china · 18 June 2007
Cleaners want a union to protect their rights
... 11 rubbish workers in BaoAn district in outer Shenzhen have announced to their boss that they ... to start a union at their workplace. The initiative came from a 56 year old man, who has been ... in a union before at a garment factory where he worked as a warehouse manager. In one day, he ... together 10 of his co-workers – four men and six women, with an average age of 50 years and ... little formal education. Five of them are illiterate. According to this very brief report, ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/16/cleaners-want-a-union-to-protect-their-rights · 7 May 2007
Trade Unions at Wal-Mart and Foxconn
... The ACFTU uses new grassroots organizing techniques to take on ... foreign enterprises This first round of translations from China Labor News Translations ... three Chinese newspaper articles, all related to recent trade union development in China. They ... the All-China Federation of Trade Union’s (ACFTU’s) now famous ... to establish trade union branches in Wal-Mart and Foxconn. 1. ‘Labors’ ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/4/wal-mart · 21 March 2007