Wal-Mart opens Chinese Communist branch

Wal-Mart opens Chinese Communist branch
Staff and agencies
24 August, 2006




34 minutes ago

SHANGHAI, China - Capitalist icon Wal-Mart, the world?s biggest retailer, now
has its first communist party branch.

Like many media-shy Chinese, she gave only her surname, Liu. She would not
discuss further details.

President Hu Jintao Hu Jintao, who heads the ruling communist party, reportedly
prompted China?s state-sanctioned labor group to launch a campaign to set up
party-controlled unions in Wal-Mart branches. The retailer resisted for two
years before employees in the southeastern city of Quanzhou successfully voted
to set up a union in late July.

It wasn?t immediately clear whether the party branch had an office in the store.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Arkansas, has fought efforts to form
unions elsewhere in its worldwide operations. But it said this month it would
cooperate with the ACFTU to organize its Chinese employees.

Unions in China usually represent the workforce of a single company or outlet,
rather than a whole industry.



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