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[From Yahoo! News]

China official vows to unionize Wal-Mart

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is determined to introduce trade unions in all local Wal-Mart stores, despite the retail giant’s opposition to unions among its workers, a Chinese labor official said in state media on Wednesday.

Employees of a Wal-Mart store in Quanzhou, in the southeastern province of Fujian, established a branch of the state-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions on Saturday - the first such union in the U.S. company’s spreading China operations.

Wal-Mart has rebuffed the federation’s efforts to expand into its stores, and since the Saturday announcement company executives have said they were unaware of the latest move.Continue reading China official vows to unionize Wal-Mart at Yahoo! News

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