Posted on 22 December 2007. Tags: China, Labor Rights, National Labor Committee
China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]
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Posted on 22 December 2007. Tags: China, Labor Rights, National Labor Committee
China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]
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Posted on 03 May 2007. Tags: Labor Rights, Wal-Mart
 Yesterday, Human Rights Watch published a pretty damning report on the big bad folks at The Beast–aka Wal-Mart. Not surprisingly, the Bentonville Bullies come off as, well, not just bullies but lawbreakers… “Wal-Mart workers have virtually no chance to organize because they’re up against unfair US labor laws and a giant company that will do […]
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