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Article: Guangzhou: Hotbed for rise of trade unions

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August 29, 2006
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GUANGZHOU: To many foreign investors, a trade union in China can be a troublesome entity.

But that is not necessarily true in Guangzhou Development Zone.

About 60 per cent of the more than 1,000 foreign-invested enterprises there have set up trade unions.

That compares to 53.1 per cent in Guangdong Province and 25 per cent in the nation as a whole.

Several of the unions are invested in by some of the world's top 500 multinational companies. These include the P&G (China) Investment Co Ltd, Delphi Packard Electric (Guangzhou) Co Ltd, Amway China Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric (Guangzhou) Hualing Compressor Co Ltd, VA TECH Elin Transformer Guangzhou Co Ltd and ThyssenKrupp Stainless International ...

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