Chinese Wal-Mart's unionizing

[One Sweet World]

I saw an interesting article on Wake Up Wal-Mart today that Chinese Wal-Mart are unionizing, and I'm not sure what to think.

On one hand, I'm always happy to see workers unionized. But on the other hand, I'm troubled by Wal-Mart toxic relationship with China. As jobs continue to disappear in the United States, Wal-Mart becomes deeper and deeper indebted to communist China to the point that 70% of its products now come from there.

I don't know -- what do you think?

[One Sweet World]

1. The Emergence of Real Trade Unionism in Wal-Mart Stores

Here's the original source: "The Emergence of Real Trade Unionism in Wal-Mart Stores"

[izquierdista]

2. Unions that aren't unions

You have to remember that the Communist party is supposed to be the union in China. So it is not going to be out to represent the interests of the Wal-Mart workers, rather the Chinese government.

You also need to fix your link.

[JfortheDonks]

3. I Dunno

If the economy didn't suck so bad in the U.S. right now, I wouldn't probably go into Walmart so much for things like I have to do. We can't win for losing, can we?! Also: After the earthquake in China, even though I really believe in buying USA, ya can't help but feel sorry for those unfortunate folks to a certain extent, you know?!

[BrklynLib at work]

4. Wal-Mart has long been a catalyst in the downfall of the US economy.

Wal-Mart closed a store in Canada when the employees wanted to unionize...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0210-13.htm

http://www.union-network.org/UNIsite/sectors/commerce/Multinationals/Wal-Mart_Ontario_union_busting_continues.htm



but the unions are still plugging ahead in Canada
http://www.nupge.ca/news_2005/n21ja05b.htm

Wal-Mart is the largest private sector employer in the world with 1.4 million workers globally. It is almost exclusively a non-union corporation and is universally known for its atrocious record on labour rights. Wal-Mart entered Canada in 1994 and now has about 230 Canadian outlets with more than 60,000 Canadian employees.