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Article: KFC, McDonald's workers set up trade unions in Shanghai, Liaoning
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 29, 2007
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KFC, McDonald's workers set up trade unions in Shanghai, Liaoning
SHANGHAI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Employees have set up trade union
branches at all KFC and McDonald's outlets in Shanghai, the city's
Trade Union Federation announced Friday.
More than 90 percent of KFC's 12,000 employees working in 200
chain stores had volunteered to join the union since the first branch
was founded in 1999, said a federation statement.
All 5,049 employees at 80 McDonald's outlets had become union
members since 2005 when workers set up the first branch.
In Liaoning Province, employees of a McDonald's in the capital,
Shenyang, convened a trade union conference on Friday morning,
forming the first union branch ...