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Article: China Exclusive: China's trade unions move to protect rights of migrant workers
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 16, 2005
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China Exclusive: China's trade unions move to protect rights of
migrant workers
HANGZHOU, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- "If the bosses default on our
salaries, we will join with other fellows to strive for them," said
Zhu Honglin, a migrant worker from Dongyang, a city in east China's
Zhejiang Province.
Last year, Zhu failed to receive his overdue salary after repeated
appeals to his bosses. He finally tried his luck at the labor union
in Yiwu, a booming city where Zhu worked. To his surprise, they
managed to get his salaries back before the Spring Festival.
About 100 representatives from the national labor unions convened
at Yiwu, a booming small commodities production center in Zhejiang ...