If Wal-Mart has to listen to the Chinese government why is the US such cowards?
I happened to come across this article that Wal-Mart is going to sign collective contracts at all it’s stores in China. I bet the evil US Chamber of Commerce is shivering over this one.
The announcement in the Workers’ Daily on 31 July came just two weeks after Wal-Mart signed its first collective wage agreement in Shenyang, which mandated an eight percent pay increase for all workers this year, with another eight percent next year.
This was soon followed by the signing of similar collective contracts in the Quanzhou store, which formed the first Wal-Mart union in China in August 2006, and close to 20 other outlets, including those in Shenzhen.
All the agreements reportedly covered remuneration, working hours and paid vacations, labour insurance and welfare benefits, and stipulated that workers should be paid more than the local minimum wage.
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