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Re: China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Labor Abuse



In my experience, if this "reform" wasn't won because of pressure from
below, it isn't as good as it looks. If it was simply granted because
of the benevolence of those on top, it can just as eaily be revoked.

On 10/13/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/business/worldbusiness/13sweat.html>
October 13, 2006
China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Labor Abuse
By DAVID BARBOZA

SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 — China is planning to adopt a new law that seeks to
crack down on sweatshops and protect workers' rights by giving labor
unions real power for the first time since it introduced market forces
in the 1980's.


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Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal



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