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Article: 2nd LD-Writethru: Wal-Mart promises to help set up trade unions at all Chinese outlets
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 10, 2006
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2nd LD-Writethru: Wal-Mart promises to help set up trade unions at
all Chinese outlets
BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Wal-Mart chiefs have promised to help
China's top trade union authority establish unions in all its outlets
across the country.
Wal-Mart executives made the commitment during visits to branches
of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) in Shenzhen and
Nanjing, where a total of five Wal-Mart unions have been formed.
A statement released by Wal-Mart on Wednesday said the company
would cooperate closely with the ACFTU in setting up trade unions in
all its 60 Wal-Mart outlets in China.
Joe Hatfield, president of Wal-Mart Asia, said "I hope to
establish with the ACFTU ...