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Article: 1st LD: Wal-Mart China sees third trade union in Shenzhen outlets
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 8, 2006
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1st LD: Wal-Mart China sees third trade union in Shenzhen outlets
BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The world's top anti-unionist Wal-
Mart saw a new trade union set up in one of its outlets in the
southern China city of Shenzhen early Tuesday morning, where the
world's leading retailer locates its China headquarters.
The trade union of the Wal-Mart Dafen store in Shenzhen was
installed around 1:00 a.m. Tuesday despite "repeated and various
obstacles," an official with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions
(ACFTU) said.
Altogether 24 employees of Wal-Mart's Dafen store elected their
first trade union committee and a fund auditing committee. Chen Li, a
25-year-old employee, was elected ...