Article: Wal-Mart workers establish 3rd trade union

NANJING: The world's leading retailer Wal-Mart saw its third trade union in China set up over the weekend in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, just a week after its first trade union was formed in a store in East China's Fujian Province.

Thirty-one employees of Wal-Mart's Xinjiekou store in Nanjing elected their first trade union committee, and a 22-year-old mid- level management employee named Wu Yinzheng, who has a university education background, was elected chairman.

Wu vowed in the election that the committee would safeguard the legal rights and interests of employees according to the laws of the country, and try to maintain a smooth relationship between employees and ...

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